{"id":9860,"date":"2022-06-09T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2022-06-09T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:57:00","slug":"high-pay-attracts-workers-but-constructions-employment-gap-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/high-pay-attracts-workers-but-constructions-employment-gap-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"High pay attracts workers, but construction&#8217;s employment gap widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To entice more workers into the industry, contractors will likely have to further elevate wages, AGC Chief Economist Ken Simonson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"itemsource\">This item was originally posted here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/high-pay-attracts-workers-construction-jobs-employment-gap-widens\/625218\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To entice more workers into the industry, contractors will likely have to further elevate wages, AGC Chief Economist Ken Simonson &#8230; <a title=\"High pay attracts workers, but construction&#8217;s employment gap widens\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/high-pay-attracts-workers-but-constructions-employment-gap-widens\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about High pay attracts workers, but construction&#8217;s employment gap widens\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}