Employee Benefits Offered by Remodeling Firms

Full-service firms have increased benefits for their employees while there is a general reluctance to grow benefits for employees among replacement and specialty contractors compared to last year.

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Replacement and specialty firms. Despite the increases in revenue enjoyed by replacement and specialty contractors, there is a general reluctance to grow benefits for their employees compared with last year’s group. Only a few benefits saw a slight increase—disability insurance and paid holidays. And providing company uniforms continues to be a growing trend. But overall, fewer replacement and specialty firms are offering employee benefits, with maternity and paternity leave noticeably falling out of favor.

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2019: Employee Benefits Offered by Replacement/Specialty Contractors


Full-service firms. Noticeably different from replacement and specialty firms, full-service remodelers have increased benefits for their employees in the last year. More firms offer insurance benefits—health, life, dental, and disability—as well as retirement and maternity and paternity leave. However, slightly fewer companies in 2018 offered vacation time and paid holidays.

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2019: Employee Benefits Offered by Full-Service Remodeling Firms

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Vincent Salandro

Vincent Salandro is an associate editor for Builder. He covers products for the Journal of Light Construction and also has stories appearing in other Zonda publications. He earned a B.A. in journalism and a B.S. in economics from American University.

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Clayton DeKorne

Clay DeKorne is the Chief Editor of the JLC Group, which includes The Journal of Light Construction, Remodeling, Tools of the Trade and Professional Deck Builder. He was the founding editor of Tools of the Trade (1993) and Coastal Contractor (2004), and the founding educational director for JLC Live (1995). Before venturing into writing and education for the building industry, he was a renovation contractor and carpenter in Burlington, Vt.