America's Skilled Trades Dashboard
2026 edition

Explore the state of the skilled trades workforce that builds, fixes and powers America.

An annual assessment — occupation-by-occupation, state-by-state and across the U.S.

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Introducing America's Skilled Trades Dashboard from the Alliance for America's Skilled Trades

The Alliance for America's Skilled Trades is a coalition of leading American companies committed to closing the nation's skilled trades gap by expanding access to training, apprenticeships, and meaningful career pathways.

The State of America's Skilled Trades: A National Report is one of the Alliance's first collective deliverables, providing a shared, accurate foundation of data that every stakeholder can trust and build from. The report examines the forces shaping supply and demand across jobs and regions, to show where workforce systems are working well, where they're under strain, and where focused action can make the biggest difference.

To help state and local leaders, employers, education and training providers, and others put these findings to work, the Alliance has launched the America's Skilled Trades Dashboard — an interactive tool that breaks down the data occupation by occupation and state by state, making it easy to explore local labor market conditions, identify where the need is greatest, and compare progress across geographies.

America's Skilled Trades Dashboard tracks six interconnected indicators of the skilled trades workforce.

Start with your state

An outlook of supply and demand for skilled trades across America

Supply and demand don't always line up. Nine states face both high demand and low supply.

Explore supply and demand by state, and the indicators underlying them.

Demand pressure by state
highest demand pressure