Salary survey provider
PAS salary surveys
PAS (founded in 1979 as Personnel Administration Services) is a private Michigan company that collects wage, salary and benefit data mainly for the construction industry. It runs a set of annual pay and benefit surveys for contractors covering executives, salaried staff, office support staff and craft workers, plus one for the aggregates industry. It also does private peer-group surveys, association surveys and pay consulting.
- Headquarters
- Saline, MI
- Focus
- Construction industry, Contractors (general, construction managers, electrical, mechanical, specialty, design-build), Heavy, highway and municipal construction, Aggregates (stone, sand and gravel)
- Data covers
- United States (by geographic region), Some foreign countries (survey forms are sent to contractors there)
- How you get the data
- Contractors take part by asking PAS to add them to the participant list or by emailing for the current survey packet (PDF/Excel). Packets go out each year on a set schedule, and anyone who bought a PAS product in the last two years gets them automatically.
- Since 1979
- PAS has published construction pay data
- 34,000+
- construction employees in the Construction/CM Staff Salary Survey
- 3,300+
- executives in the Executive Compensation Survey for Contractors
- 44th
- annual edition of the Construction/CM Staff Salary Survey
PAS salary surveys
- Executive Compensation Survey for ContractorsSalary, bonus, benefits and perks for 18 construction executive positions, from board chair to controller · United States, by geographic regionAnnual; packets mailed in October, due December 1, report updated in December
- Construction/Construction Management Staff Salary SurveyBase salary, bonus and total cash for 58 construction staff positions such as superintendents, project managers, estimators and engineers · United States, by geographic regionAnnual; packets mailed in January, due late February, ships third week of March
- Construction Support Staff Salary SurveySalary and bonus for 46 office and support staff positions at contractors (accounting, admin, HR, dispatch, drafting/BIM) plus recent-graduate hire rates · United States, by geographic regionPackets mailed in August, due early October, ships third week of October
- Benefit Survey For ContractorsMore than 300 benefit and HR practice items at contractors, including insurance, time off, retirement, vehicles and perks · United States, by regionAnnual, conducted in the fall; packets mailed early July, due mid-August, report updated in September
- Merit Shop Wage & Benefit Survey For ContractorsHourly rates and benefits for journeymen, foremen, apprentices and helpers across 30 construction crafts at merit (open) shop contractors · United States, by geographic area; local reports by county, metro area or stateAnnual; packets mailed in April, due late May, report updated in June
- Heavy, Highway, and Municipal Wage & Benefit SurveyOpen shop hourly pay and benefits for about 30 heavy civil, highway and municipal craft and equipment operator positions · United States, by geographic area; some local reports by metro area or stateAnnual; report updated in February
- Aggregate Industry Compensation SurveyPay and benefits for 60+ salaried and 14 hourly positions in stone, sand and gravel operations · United States, by region of mining operationsAnnual; data collected July/August; 2026-2027 edition current
Survey list and figures from PAS’s website, checked October 8, 2026.
Using PAS data in CompTool
- We load every PAS survey you license at no extra cost, in under three days on average.
- Multi-match prices whole job families across PAS and your other surveys in one pass.
- Blend and age the data by your own rules, alongside Squirrel’s real-time employer-posted pay.
Load your PAS surveys into CompTool
Every survey you license, loaded at no extra cost in under three days on average.
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