Construction Supervisor

Across all employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, the median wage for First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers — about 13,110 people — is $99,890. Office of Housing pays a median base salary of $88,832 for this role, 11% below that figure — about the 35th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Office of Housing is $94,082, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

This role is reported in 3 jurisdictions. In City of Boston, the median of $94,082 ranks #2 of 3. See Construction Supervisor across all of City of Boston →

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