Union-Nonunion Wage & Fringe Benefits Comparison
Many groups want to see a comparison of union to nonunion wages and fringe benefits rates. An evaluation of the pay package for a specific craft in a specific geographic location is very helpful for both management and labor in order to provide a common understanding of the total compensation environment in their area.
Market Share Study
Contractors, associations, owners, unions, and labor-management groups increasingly are seeing the necessity of understanding their market share. Measuring market share, including historical trends, using an experienced, objective third party such as CLRC helps labor and management understand the effectiveness of their current business practices.
Market Share With Sectors:
Adds to the standard Market Share Study by breaking market share into sectors: Residential, Commercial, Service, and Industrial.
Contract Costing
This report provides the unique function of converting relevant language in a labor contract to the cost it incurs for employers. More specifically, 10 -12 clauses that result in a cost are identified. Then, using CLRC algorithms, the monetary value of each clause is calculated. This value can then be added to the total package rate to better understand costs beyond wages and fringe benefits.
Contractor’s Cost Conundrum
New from CLRC, Contractor’s Cost Conundrum explains some of the very challenging economic and staffing challenges faced by contractors. The report, customized to your location, compares the cost of living (CPI) to the extremely large increases in the commodities (materials) purchased by contractors. The report goes on to clearly explain another lesser known but critical difficulty, variability over time (aka unpredictability) in the cost of construction commodities, spending on construction and even employment, all of which make planning very difficult.
Benchmark Analysis
The Benchmark Analysis is helpful for comparing union wage trends with benchmark sources such as the CPI or nonunion pay increases. The union pay rate from 10-20 years ago is modeled using the increases in the benchmark data to bring the rate to the current time. Over time, the gaps between the union and benchmark rates grows, and the impact of large or even small differences years earlier becomes evident as time and compounding play out in the data.
Construction Data Record
A compendium of data about the construction industry, customized to your location. Topics include: Overall Economy, Employment, Establishments, Workforce Age, Union Density, Growth Projections, Union CraftLabor Shortage/Surplus, Compensation, and Construction Spending.
Additional Research
collective Bargaining Settlements Database
CLRC maintains the largest and most reliable union wage and fringe benefits database in the construction industry. Data are categorized by geographic region, city, craft, year and other useful factors. Subscribe to our publications or request customized reports for your unique situation.
CLRC sets the industry standard when it comes to union wage and fringe benefits data.
Workforce/Labor Analysis and Projections
Understanding local, regional and even national labor supply and demand characteristics is important for proactive association executives , contractors, owners and others preparing for upcoming projects or bids.
CLRC has extensive experience conducting workforce analysis and planning research, including projecting future needs.
Collective Bargaining Support
Busy association executives, contractors and owners often do not have the time or expertise to adequately prepare for collective bargaining. The outcome is unsatisfactory results, often with greater costs than desired.
CLRC can provide high impact, ready-to-use negotiating information, including custom data analytics, cost analyses, economic information, benchmark comparisons and explanations to use in collective bargaining.
Raw Data
Sometimes clients just want to look at raw pay data for a given craft and region of interest.
CLRC can provide a snapshot of the raw data—detailed wage and fringe benefits rates—from the database which contains over 1,500 entries for 18 crafts in all 50 states.
Survey Development, Administration and Analysis
CLRC has developed and/or administered numerous surveys covering topics as diverse as safety, employee compensation, materials costs, engineering backlog, employee performance and more.
CLRC can support you in any step of the process, including survey development, strategy, administration, and/or analysis and follow-up.
Custom Research
What is your particular need? Contact CLRC to discuss. We have conducted a wide variety of research and data-based projects, from strategy development through final statistical analysis and reporting.
CLRC can work with you through any stage of your research needs.