2. Ohio
Annual median salary: $36,730
Cost of living: 93
Employment: 33,000
With wages just hovering at the national average, working in Ohio, next on our list of best states for construction workers as a construction worker isn’t all that bad. Take their ideally sustainable cost of living rates as your encouragement. You might not earn as much as you could in Hawaii, for example, where average salaries for construction laborers are at $50,050, but the Aloha State also has a ridiculously high cost of living. Ohio offers you average wages, low living expenses, and very good employment rates.