Compensation
TOTAL REWARDS PACKAGE
At PCL, we offer you more than just a job. Our total rewards package is our investment in your well-being and future success. From a competitive salary and annual bonuses to health and wellness benefits, retirement plans and exciting employee ownership opportunities, join us and be part of a workplace where your contributions are recognized and rewarded.
KEEPING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HEALTHY
We want you and your family to have access to programs and services that support your physical, mental, social and financial well-being. These can include:
Benefits
100% EMPLOYEE OWNED
PCL is 100% owned by employees. As owners, we have a greater stake in the company and make decisions with our shared success in mind. Eligible salary employees at all levels of the company – not only managers and executives – are invited to become shareholders. PCL targets a lucrative long-term annual return on investment (paid out in yearly dividends).
Share Program
CREATE YOUR CAREER BLUEPRINT
When people like you come to us, it’s not just for a job. It’s for a career. They stay and grow with us. We invest in our employees by providing supporting tools to set goals and the resources you need to help achieve them, allowing you to build a meaningful, rewarding career. With our College of Construction, hundreds of in-house learning options and a $1,000 yearly education fund to pursue external learning, we invest in growing our people and we recognize your dedication to learning through our college learning award.
Career and Professional Development
CAREERS ON THE MOVE
Mobility
Compensation
benefits
share program
career and professional development
mobility
Flexible Benefits Program with multiple levels of coverage giving employees the ability to choose the solutions that fit your needs
Vision care, paramedical services, prescription coverage and dental benefits
Employee life, travel, and other optional insurances
Short and long-term disability benefits
Employee Assistance Program for mental health, nutritional, financial and career counselling
Health and Wellness Spending Accounts
· Employee Life (up to 3x base pay), Optional Life, Optional Critical Illness
and Optional AD&D insurances
· Short-Term Disability benefits at 100% of base pay for up to 17 weeks
· Long-Term Disability benefits with cost-of-living adjustments
· Employee Assistance Program for several services including mental
health, nutritional, financial and career counselling
· Additional $500 toward a Health Spending Account, Lifestyle Spending
Account or Registered Retirement Savings Plan
· $200 towards a Fitness Account
The average tenure of a PCL employee is over eight years
35% of employees have spent more than a decade working for PCL
10% of employees have been with us more than 20 years
1,085 employees were promoted in 2023
Our geographically diverse business creates many opportunities for employees like you to build your career while helping build awe-inspiring projects. With offices in more than 30 major centers across Canada, the United States and Australia we can bring the work to you or offer you the chance to see the world through our mobility program while gaining new work experiences.
1,000+ active projects at any given time
286 voluntary location transfers in 2023
41 employees opted for cross-border transfers in 2023
PCL strives to be an environmentally responsible company, as well as one that helps our clients achieve the same goals. From operating out of LEED-certified buildings to installing solar panels and other renewable energy sources on our offices, we aim to reduce our carbon footprint to do our part to combat climate change.
Additionally, PCL is a leader in sustainable construction methods, renewable energy construction, water and wastewater treatment and more. If sustainable building interests you, we have a role for you here.
Our success is dependent on talented employees with a diverse range of skills and backgrounds who bring their ideas and perspectives to work each day. Our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts aim to ensure all employees feel welcome, appreciated and heard. We also strive to give all employees the right opportunities, training and support to achieve their career goals.
PCL has a companywide strategy for diversity, equity and inclusion that includes 24 DE&I committees across the organization with more than 180 members.
Life at PCL
ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY
At PCL, we’re well known for our generous spirit, and we never have to look far to find a co-worker encouraging team members to give back to local charitable causes. As employee owners, we understand the value of being good corporate citizens and embrace opportunities to help people in need and strengthen our communities.
We embrace a future-focused vision of construction to build better products, enhance client value and drive new opportunities. From in-house virtual construction and construction engineering departments to digital dashboards, Building Information Modeling (BIM) turnover models and our Job Site Insights® smart construction platform, we are set up to solve problems on any project. We employ over 250 business technology professionals, and our in-house QUEST program encourages employees to share their innovative solutions across the company.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Life at PCL
Sustainability
Life at PCL
Community
Life at PCL
Innovation
#11 on Engineering News-Record’s list of Top Green Contractors
One of Canada’s Greenest Employers
344 LEED-credentialed staff and 6 ENV SP-credentialed staff
254 LEED-certified projects, with a total value of more than $19 billion
$3 billion worth of completed renewable energy projects
20 billion gallons of water treated daily by PCL projects
WE CHOOSE TO INCLUDE
giving back
on the cutting edge
$8.4 million total raised for charitable organizations in 2023.
$5.3 million raised for United Way, all of which stays in our local communities. We’ve raised more than $50 million for United Way since our partnership began in 1968.
$232,000 annual donation to the combined Canadian and American Red Cross
$61,000 to local food banks
National sponsor of the MS Bike Tour
Many more local community volunteering opportunities
WHY PCL
Retirement
SECURING YOUR FUTURE
PCL invests in your future. We make it easy for you to save and plan for retirement with PCL’s retirement and savings programs.
Defined Contribution Pension Plan (RPP)
Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)
· Employee Life (up to 3x base pay), Optional Life, Optional Critical Illness
and Optional AD&D insurances
· Short-Term Disability benefits at 100% of base pay for up to 17 weeks
· Long-Term Disability benefits with cost-of-living adjustments
· Employee Assistance Program for several services including mental
health, nutritional, financial and career counselling
· Additional $500 toward a Health Spending Account, Lifestyle Spending
Account or Registered Retirement Savings Plan
· $200 towards a Fitness Account
Retirement
