Compensation
TOTAL REWARDS PACKAGE
PCL offers outstanding total rewards by combining numerous pay and benefits strategies to provide employees with a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package, including salary, annual bonuses, health and wellness benefits, retirement plans and employee ownership opportunities.
SUPPORTING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY’S WELLNESS
Providing you and your family 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 current 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 join us, it’s not just for a job. It’s for a long-term career. They stay and grow with us. We provide supporting tools to set goals and the resources to help achieve them, allowing our employees to build meaningful, rewarding careers. With our College of Construction, hundreds of in-house learning options and a $1,000 yearly stipend for each employee to pursue external learning, we invest in growing our people.
Career and Professional Development
CAREERS ON THE MOVE
Mobility
Compensation
benefits
share program
career and professional development
mobility
Industry-leading medical insurance
Prescription drug coverage
Dental insurance
Chiropractor, acupuncture* and preventative care coverage
Eyewear and laser vision correction discount
Paternal management
· 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
1,096 employees were promoted in 2022
Our geographically diverse business creates many opportunities for employees to build their careers while helping build awe-inspiring projects. With offices in more than 30 major centers across the United States, Canada and Australia, and 1000+ active projects, we can bring the work to you or offer you the chance to see the world.
1,000+ active projects at any given time
270 voluntary location transfers in 2022
26 employees opted for cross-border transfers in 2022
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 (DE&I) 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 build more than just buildings and infrastructure projects, we build hope in the communities we live and work in through our charitable efforts. 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
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
$6.2 million total raised for charitable organizations in 2023
$4 million raised for United Way, all of which stays in our local communities. We’ve raised more than $38 million for United Way since our partnership began in 1968
$175,000 annual donation to the combined Canadian and American Red Cross
WHY PCL
Healthcare, dependent care and transportation FSAs
Disease management
Life, AD&D and vision insurance
Telemedicine
Employee Assistance Program for mental health
*Not including Hawaii
*Not including Hawaii