2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Construction Laborers

Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metropolitan area. Estimated employment 240.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 47-2061
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$45,900 · 50th
$35,20010th
$37,46025th
$45,90050th
$46,52075th
$58,07090th

That is the medianhalf of construction laborers in Pinehurst earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$45,900 in Pinehurst buys what $52,000 buys across the country as a whole.

Pinehurst's regional price parity is 88.3 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in North Carolina

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Pinehurst
Asheville$47,520$49,20096.5−5.2%
Durham$46,560$47,70097.6−8.2%
Wilmington$46,090$47,80096.4−8.0%
Pinehurst This page$45,900$52,00088.3
Charlotte$45,850$47,10097.3−9.4%
Raleigh$45,650$46,50098.2−10.5%
Hickory$44,550$50,30088.5−3.1%
Fayetteville$43,740$47,60092.0−8.5%

Price parity and difference against Pinehurst are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employment
240 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 47-2061, Construction Laborers. Mapped to our taxonomy as construction-laborers.

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