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Payroll company Hudson Contract<\/a> has released its pay trends across the construction industry for December 2018, revealing the year ended on a high note for freelance builders, with earnings up by 2.68%<\/h2>\n

Hudson Contract delivers indications of pay trends across the construction industry, using payroll data for over 2,200 construction companies to publish the average pay for a spectrum of 17 different trades now split across ten regions.<\/p>\n

Freelance builders\u2019 earnings were up 2.68% or \u00a325 a week on November, to chalk up three consecutive months of increases.<\/p>\n

Hudson Contract Managing Director Ian Anfield said: \u201cThe annual push to get work finished ahead of the Christmas break was assisted by unseasonably but very welcome mild weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also significant that subbies in the West Midlands have become the first to smash through the \u00a31,000 a week threshold. It\u2019s a significant moment for construction.\u00a0 Not only does it signify high demand for skilled workers<\/a> \u2013 and especially bricklayers, electricians, plasterers, joiners, and mechanical and engineering specialists \u2013 it will hopefully help to put construction on the career sights for school leavers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eight of Hudson Contract\u2019s ten regions enjoyed increases in December, with East Midlands holding steady and only Wales bucking the trend with a slight reduction of 0.6%.<\/p>\n

Firms surveyed also reported that subcontractor usage<\/a> picked up towards the end of the year \u2013 with the strongest rate of expansion in three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to be ending the year on such a positive note for the industry, with output strong, earnings up and the weather behaving itself.\u00a0 Before anyone else says it, I\u2019ll agree Brexit continues to cast shadows over the future, but even so, I believe plenty of subbies in all parts of the country will be earning over \u00a31,000 a week as the year progresses,\u201d Anfield added.<\/p>\n

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