Your Firm Is Losing Engineers You Can’t Afford to Replace
PH Balanced is the workforce intelligence platform that measures the hidden retention risk inside your AEC firm before it becomes a resignation.
Trusted by Engineering and Construction Leaders
Mid-career engineers don’t just leave.
They take $500K with them.
The engineers who drive your project delivery the ones in years 10 to 20 of their careers are leaving at rates your firm hasn’t measured. Not the rookies. Not the veterans. The ones who know your clients, carry your institutional knowledge, and run your work.
When they resign, the cost compounds: backfill recruiting, delayed projects, lost bids, broken client relationships, and months of onboarding the next hire. Most firms treat this as an HR issue. The firms that survive the next decade will treat it as a revenue risk.
PH Balanced gives your leadership team the data to see it coming and the tools to stop it.
Tenure compression
Average engineer tenure dropped from 7 years to 4.9 years between 2019 and 2025.
Replacement timeline
Time-to-hire for mid-career engineers has grown from 3–6 months to 9–18 months.
Replacement cost
A single mid-career resignation costs AEC firms over $500,000 in total replacement expenses.
Source: PositiveHire longitudinal research, 1,000+ AEC professionals, 2019–2025
The engineers you’re losing didn’t decide to leave overnight
Mid-career attrition is the problem AEC firms feel. The PE milestone is where it starts.
The Missing Middle
Engineers in years 10 to 20 of their careers carry your client relationships, your institutional knowledge, and your project delivery capacity.
When they leave, most firms scramble to backfill. By that point, the cost is already in motion.
PH Balanced gives your leadership team visibility into this cohort and surfaces the internal opportunities that make staying the better option.
The PE Milestone
Before engineers reach the Missing Middle, they hit a decision point most firms never see coming.
When an engineer earns their PE license, they reassess their options. If your firm can’t show them a clear path forward at that moment, you don’t lose them immediately.
You lose them five years later, when they’re your most valuable people. Intervening at the PE milestone is where PH Balanced has the most leverage.
Anonymous Talent Matching
PH Balanced matches your workforce to open project roles based on skills, experience, and career goals.
Talent is anonymized and scored, so matching decisions are driven by fit, not familiarity. Managers see who is ready.
Engineers see a path forward.
Dashboard and Analytics
One view of your workforce data. Track talent distribution, match activity, and career progression across your firm.
Built for leadership teams who need clear data, not another HR report to decode.
PH Balanced is in active development. We’re selecting a small cohort of AEC firms to build alongside us shaping the platform’s features, informing its benchmarks, and locking in founding-member pricing before public launch.
What that means for you:
- Deposit secures your annual rate locked for life
- Early access to features before general release
- Direct input into product development priorities
- Access to proprietary benchmark data from 6 years of AEC workforce research
Founding Members get the rate.
FOREVER.
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