Heavy Rain and Mountain Snow Over Portions of the West. A Pacific storm will bring heavy rain and mountain snow over the favored terrain of the Pacific Northwest and California into the weekend. Multiple feet of snow is expected along the higher peaks of the Sierra and Cascades. Unusually cold temperatures will impact the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys as well as the Mid-Atlantic.
(United States). Builders in the United States are largely men, earning an average of $14.50 per hour. Career duration is the biggest factor affecting pay for this group, followed by geography. Most Builders like their work and job satisfaction is high.
Industries. In 2011, nonresidential building construction provided almost a quarter of the 195,000 jobs for contractors, with average salaries at $45.41 per hour, or $94,450 per year.Building equipment contractors contained 14 percent of the positions at a mean $46.52 per hour, or $96,750 per year.epending on the size of the project, general contractors also can be called construction managers or project managers. Though they work from a main office, they often report to construction sites where they can monitor progress firsthand.