State labor market
Texas labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Texas. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Texas hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Texas.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Texas workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
General and operations managers
431,310estimated employmentCustomer service representatives
337,170estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
329,590estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Texas figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$95,970/yr Texas median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$132,150/yr Texas median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$58,570/yr Texas median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$80,920/yr Texas median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$62,760/yr Texas median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$147,880/yr Texas median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Texas occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Texas workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Court reporters and simultaneous captioners$110,080/yr state median · 1,270 workers+52.0%vs. U.S. $72,420/yr
- Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers$145,220/yr state median · 4,900 workers+42.5%vs. U.S. $101,920/yr
- Chemical plant and system operators$102,750/yr state median · 2,360 workers+31.5%vs. U.S. $78,120/yr
- Teaching assistants, postsecondary$55,670/yr state median · 13,540 workers+29.7%vs. U.S. $42,910/yr
- Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks$62,930/yr state median · 1,180 workers+25.7%vs. U.S. $50,080/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Fashion designers$40,040/yr state median · 1,850 workers-50.5%vs. U.S. $80,960/yr
- Surgeons, all other$222,820/yr state median · 1,710 workers-46.2%vs. U.S. $414,010/yr
- Anesthesiologists$215,230/yr state median · 2,800 workers-45.0%vs. U.S. $391,490/yr
- Editors$45,950/yr state median · 6,460 workers-41.0%vs. U.S. $77,920/yr
- Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers$21,550/yr state median · 60,270 workers-36.6%vs. U.S. $33,980/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Texas
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Texas. Links marked “Texas report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Texas report is available.
734 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.