Compensation
TOTAL REWARDS PACKAGE
PCL combines numerous pay and benefits strategies to provide students with a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package, including salary, health and wellness benefits.
KEEPING YOU HEALTHY
PCL has taken a leadership position in the construction industry by offering a Flexible Benefits Program for its student employees. When enrolling in the Student Flexible Benefits Program, you will understand the value of your benefit selections and how they work. The program is designed to give you choices. It provides you with an opportunity to choose the coverage that is best for you. These benefits can include:
Benefits
100% EMPLOYEE OWNED
Share ownership is offered to all eligible salaried employees, not just executives or managers, and is a great incentive to join PCL full-time at the end of your internship.
This means you can become a shareholder after your first year as a salaried employee. At PCL the shareholder opportunity is offered at all levels and tenure. We want you to build your career with us from the start of your journey to retirement.
Share Program
mentorship and training
As a student at PCL, you’ll have opportunities to participate in our College of Construction geared toward helping you develop the technical, behavioral and leadership skills you need to secure a successful future in construction. Learn from the diverse experiences of top industry professionals through our mentorship program and take meaningful steps towards growing your career.
Education
see the world as a student
Mobility
Compensation
benefits
share program
Education
mobility
Flexible Benefits Program with multiple levels of coverage
Prescription coverage and dental benefits
Medical benefits for paramedical providers (massage therapist, chiropractor, acupuncturist, dietician, etc.) and psychology services
Employee life insurance along with emergency travel coverage
Employee Assistance Program providing mental health, nutritional, financial and career counselling
· 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
PCL offers student positions in more than 30 office locations and on hundreds of project sites. With us, your internship can take you somewhere you never thought it would, whether it be a college campus in Los Angeles, a theme park in Orlando, a high rise in downtown Toronto or a ski resort in the mountains.
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 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
