Seattle-metro construction jobs, August 2026
The Seattle metro’s construction and mining employers had 124,000 jobs on payroll in August 2026, down 0.2% from a year earlier.
Construction is the most cyclical sector the site tracks and the one that turns first: the crash after 2007 took roughly a third of these jobs out before the wider downturn had properly arrived. It also has a real summer season in the raw data, so — as everywhere in these NSA series — the year-over-year change is the number that means something and a fall from August to January is just weather.
It sits alongside building permits as this site’s two reads on whether Seattle is building. Permits lead; payrolls are what actually happened.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, State & Area Employment, mining, logging and construction, Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED. Auto-generated each build.