Research Library
The published research record of the Workforce Intelligence Lab — methodology-transparent, citable research on workforce availability, capacity, and workforce-related delivery outcomes across construction, infrastructure, energy, and mission-critical labor markets.
Every publication is a citable record with a document identifier, methodology version, confidence tier, and disclosed source families. Evidence is labeled observed, preliminary, or historical — visual polish never stands in for settled evidence.
114 public records · 7 research series · updated quarterly
114 public records · search or filter to narrow the record
Source: WIL Research Library catalog — publication metadata · Measure: Publication count by sector tag (catalog metadata, not a workforce finding) A publication may carry multiple sector tags, so sector totals can exceed the unique record count. Counts derive from the catalog each build.
The Lab's public evidence layer begins with observed government statistics: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, NAICS 23 Construction, March employment. Q1 2026 cells are preliminary; suppressed cells stay missing, never zero.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) — Private ownership, NAICS 23 Construction, March employment. Q1 2026 preliminary. · Measure: Construction employment change, March Q1 2025 → March Q1 2026 (jobs) · Period: Q1 2025 (revised) → Q1 2026 (preliminary) · Movement rankings include only the 34 jurisdictions marked comparable for Q1 2025 → Q1 2026; 17 jurisdictions are excluded for suppression/missingness or comparability limitations. Construction employment change — not workforce pressure, shortage, availability, or hiring difficulty.
| State | Q1 2025 (revised) | Q1 2026 (preliminary) | Change | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 890,639 | 924,300 | +33,661 | +3.8% |
| Virginia | 222,992 | 234,613 | +11,621 | +5.2% |
| Michigan | 185,370 | 193,342 | +7,972 | +4.3% |
| Ohio | 245,544 | 252,842 | +7,298 | +3.0% |
| Iowa | 76,846 | 83,464 | +6,618 | +8.6% |
| Washington | — | — | −4,060 | — |
| Oregon | — | — | −5,169 | — |
| New York | — | — | −8,758 | — |
| California | — | — | −10,264 | — |
| Florida | — | — | −19,730 | — |
“—” marks values not supplied in the evidence package or suppressed at source — missing cells are never shown as zero. Excluded from movement ranking for this window (suppression/missingness or comparability limitations): Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin.
Concentrated by Design
AI Infrastructure Workforce Concentration and the Convergence of Construction, Grid, and Skilled-Trade Capacity Across U.S. Markets
Version 2.0 of the Workforce Concentration Risk Series flagship. Establishes the Q2 2026 baseline with 10 evidence-graded findings: AI data-center demand is concentrating in specific markets and trades faster than workforce or grid capacity can rebalance. The binding constraint is infrastructure delivery capacity — skilled electrical and mechanical labor and power infrastructure as a single coupled system. Covers geographic concentration, trade-specific scarcity, structural pipeline constraints, grid co-gating, operations long-tail demand, cross-sector competition, and bounding evidence across three planning scenarios.
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recent records across seriesPublic-Source Compensation Benchmarking: A Method Note
This method note documents the Lab's approach to public-sector compensation benchmarking: comparator selection, job-summary-level matching with a disclosed 70-percent match threshold, blended-match flagging, salary-data vintage and aging…
California
Construction labor market overview for the largest U.S. construction employment base.
EV Charging Infrastructure Demand
NEVI corridor awards and utility charging programs as distributed electrical labor demand — EVC-v1.0 directional monitor.
Browse publications
114 records · newest firstThe unified public record across every series. Use search and filters above, or open a research series below for its dedicated collection.
AI Infrastructure and the Construction Workforce Disruption
Hyperscale data-center construction concentrating pressure in electrical, mechanical, and project-leadership pools.
AI Infrastructure Expansion and the Workforce Pressure Cascade
Concurrent AI compute, data-center, and grid build-out — structural workforce dynamics standard analytics undertrack.
Arizona
Arizona workforce exposure: composite WEI 86 (High, rising) at Q2 2026, with the most constrained submarket being MV/substation electricians serving TSMC, Intel, and hyperscale data centers simultaneously. IBEW Local 640 (Phoenix) has…
Arizona
Phoenix market with concurrent semiconductor and hyperscale data-center pressure.
Arizona Electrical Labor Market
65B grid capital program — all drawing from IBEW Local 640, whose dispatch pool has confirmed over-scale premiums and multi-year backlogs. Arizona holds more cumulative semiconductor investment since 2020 than any other state, with…
Building Permits as a Labor Leading Indicator
~336K residential units in Q1 2026 — Census permit authorizations as a leading indicator of labor demand.
California
Construction labor market overview for the largest U.S. construction employment base.
CHIPS-Grid Labor Collision
CGCI-v1.1 Q3 refresh: quarterly movers, HDS posting demand, apprenticeship reads, directional tightness, and BLS workforce signals. Not proven labor collision.
Colorado
Colorado skilled-labor workforce exposure: composite WEI 76 (High, rising) at Q2 2026, with MV electricians and grid/T&D linemen most constrained across the Aurora data-center corridor, Xcel's $1.7B Power Pathway transmission buildout,…
Colorado
Denver corridor absorbing data-center overflow, federal award momentum, and mountain-state commercial expansion.
Colorado Electrical Labor Market
Front-loaded data-center construction pipeline signals elevated electrical and mechanical labor demand.
Concentrated by Design
0 of the Workforce Concentration Risk Series flagship. Establishes the Q2 2026 baseline with 10 evidence-graded findings: AI data-center demand is concentrating in specific markets and trades faster than workforce or grid capacity can…
Construction Hiring Demand Signal
1.35M U.S. job postings classified by segment — where construction hiring demand concentrates nationally.
Construction Labor Supply
1.8M contractor-license records across ten states — a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base.
Construction Management and Engineering Compensation: Atlanta
A public-source compensation profile of four construction management and engineering occupations in the Atlanta metro area, using BLS OEWS May 2025 wage percentiles benchmarked against Georgia and national levels, with BLS QCEW private…
Construction Management and Engineering Compensation: Austin
A public-source compensation profile of four construction management and engineering occupations in the Austin metro area, using BLS OEWS May 2025 wage percentiles benchmarked against Texas and national levels, with BLS QCEW private…
Construction Management and Engineering Compensation: Bakersfield
A public-source compensation profile of four construction management and engineering occupations in the Bakersfield, CA MSA, using BLS OEWS May 2025 wage percentiles benchmarked against California and national levels, with BLS QCEW private…
Construction Management and Engineering Compensation: California
A public-source compensation profile of four construction management and engineering occupations in California, using BLS OEWS May 2025 wage percentiles benchmarked against national levels, with BLS QCEW private construction (NAICS 23)…
Construction Management and Engineering Compensation: Charlotte
A public-source compensation profile of four construction management and engineering occupations in the Charlotte metro area, using BLS OEWS May 2025 wage percentiles benchmarked against North Carolina and national levels, with BLS QCEW…
Construction Management and Engineering Compensation: College Station–Bryan
A public-source compensation profile of four construction management and engineering occupations in the College Station–Bryan metro area, using BLS OEWS May 2025 wage percentiles benchmarked against Texas and national levels, with BLS QCEW…
Research series & historical collections
7 seriesEach series keeps its dedicated collection. Records published under earlier AlphaHire-era methodology (e.g. the Workforce Exposure Index) remain part of the historical record with their original terminology — they are labeled in listings and documented in the methodology registry, not restated as current WIL architecture.
State Workforce Archive
Updated quarterly; additional states in progress
Signal Briefs
Recurring brief series; current example in template review
Research Briefs
Short-form localized reads; directional, not forecasts
Quarterly Market Reviews
Recurring quarterly review; directional, not forecasts
Intelligence Papers
Thematic long-form; published as research completes
Executive Analysis Packages
Decision-oriented packages; by engagement
Flagship Publications
Annual anchor — occasional by design, at most one per year
Every record carries a document ID, methodology version, confidence tier, and disclosed source families. Methodology revisions are versioned in the registry; historical AlphaHire-era methods (Workforce Exposure Index, Compensation Volatility Framework, Project Execution Risk Matrix) are documented there as part of the historical record.
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