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Texas jobs and job market: layoffs, colleges and workforce help

Texas’s unemployment rate is 4.4%. 28,409 open professional jobs are listed here. Employers filed 133 layoff notices in the last 12 months. Choose a county or city for the same picture closer to home.

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Texas economy

  • 4.4%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.3% the month before

  • 15,948,397

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 29,640,343

    people in Texas

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $76,292

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 40%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Texas outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

  • Private-sector jobs up 5.3% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 8.5% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.3%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+147,782 jobs), construction (+107,125 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−26,907 jobs), information (−11,044 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Texas. Each link goes to the publisher.

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Texas layoffs

  • 133

    Layoff notices, last 12 months

  • 22,281

    workers named

    A floor: states may leave out counts

  • 115

    employers

Layoff notices filed in Texas, newest first
Notice dateEmployerCity or countyWorkersTypeSource
Family EndeavorsTakes effect Dec 31, 2026Bexar County153—State record
MV TransportationTakes effect Dec 31, 2026Nueces County96—State record
ECAM Technologies CorpTakes effect Dec 31, 2026Bexar County89—State record
Herzog Transit Services , IncTakes effect Dec 31, 2026Travis County84—State record
Herzog ContractingTakes effect Dec 31, 2026Travis County15—State record
Herzog Technologies, Inc.Takes effect Dec 31, 2026Travis County10—State record
Provider Partner Care Management L.PTakes effect Dec 6, 2026Tarrant County79—State record
Cayuga Home for ChildrenTakes effect Jan 4, 2027Tarrant County18—State record
Grunt StyleTakes effect Nov 30, 2026Bexar County19—State record
Grunt StyleTakes effect Nov 30, 2026El Paso County9—State record

All layoff notices in the state

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Employers hiring most in Texas

Employers with the most open professional roles on our job board right now.

  1. SpaceX896 open roles
  2. Amazon691 open roles
  3. Advanced Micro Devices236 open roles
  4. Confidential186 open roles
  5. RTX150 open roles
  6. Celestica147 open roles
  7. Hewlett Packard Enterprise138 open roles
  8. Cloudflare136 open roles
  9. H-E-B134 open roles
  10. CHRISTUS Health129 open roles
  11. L3HARRIS Technologies125 open roles
  12. Charles Schwab116 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Texas

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Higher education in Texas

  • 107

    public and private non-profit colleges

    Source: IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education

  • about 1,402,000

    students enrolled

    Estimated from size bands

Largest colleges in Texas

Largest colleges in Texas
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Baylor UniversityWacoPrivate non-profit 4-year20,000+
Sam Houston State UniversityHuntsvillePublic 4-year20,000+
Texas A&M University-College StationCollege StationPublic 4-year20,000+
Texas State UniversitySan MarcosPublic 4-year20,000+
Texas Tech UniversityLubbockPublic 4-year20,000+
The University of Texas at ArlingtonArlingtonPublic 4-year20,000+
The University of Texas at AustinAustinPublic 4-year20,000+
The University of Texas at DallasRichardsonPublic 4-year20,000+
The University of Texas at El PasoEl PasoPublic 4-year20,000+
The University of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioPublic 4-year20,000+
The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyEdinburgPublic 4-year20,000+
University of HoustonHoustonPublic 4-year20,000+

All 107 Texas colleges

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Texas. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in Texas? How to file for unemployment in Texas (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

170 American Job Centers in Texas

Job fairs and business events in Texas

Hiring events, career workshops, small-business counseling and startup events from chambers, job centers, workforce boards, colleges and economic-development groups in Texas.

Conferences in Texas

Industry conferences and trade shows held in Texas, the ones worth a trip for hiring managers and job seekers. 152 with dates announced.

Showing 24 of 195 conferences, 152 with dates announced.

All conferences

Texas counties

Each county page has its own unemployment, layoffs, job openings, employers, colleges and job centers.

Show all 254

Texas cities

Cities with open jobs, layoff notices, a job center or a college.

Show all 339

Laid off or looking for work in Texas?

See what to do first, what Texas unemployment benefits pay, and the jobs open near you.

See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS for population, income and unemployment; layoff notices from Texas’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers. Texas unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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