Careers and pay

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• What commercial contractors earnThe Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes wages for construction managers, which describes employed staff rather than business owners. An owner's incom…
• What a Commercial General Building License Opens UpA commercial general building license permits bidding commercial projects, often including public work, and the NASCLA exam extends that across sevent…
• From tradesman to licensed contractorTrade experience covers the trade categories on the exam and a fraction of running a business. The gap is contracts, estimating, bonding, financial ma…
• Bidding your first commercial jobA commercial bid is a response to a defined set of documents under defined terms. Pricing is one part; reading the instructions to bidders, the genera…
• Starting a commercial contracting businessBeyond the license you need an entity, insurance, a bonding relationship, working capital sufficient for the gap between doing work and being paid, an…
• Building a bonding relationshipSureties assess capital, capacity and character. Bondability is built over time with clean financial statements, completed projects of increasing size…
• Working across state linesA NASCLA transcript removes the examination barrier in participating states. Each state still requires its own license, bond, business registration an…
• Is the NASCLA exam worth it?It is clearly worth it for a contractor licensing in more than one participating state, since one exam replaces several. For somebody who will only ev…
• Qualifying for someone elseA qualifying party lends their qualification to a company and takes on responsibility for its licensed work. States expect genuine involvement, and ar…
• Residential to commercialThe technical work translates. Contract administration, payment cycles, bonding capacity and documentation do not, and each of those is a reason a com…