Texas job openings by major occupational group for April

Total number of job openings and median searcher-to-job ratio across all MSAs (metropolitan statistical areas) for each major occupational group in Texas in April 2015.

Texas April 2015

Occupation Number of Openings Searchers-to-Job Ratio
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 20,665 0.46
Transportation and material moving occupations 22,804 0.46
Sales and related occupations 35,166 0.63
Office and administrative support occupations 63,846 0.71
Management, business, and financial occupations 66,443 0.81
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 1,138 0.82
Service occupations 76,080 1.06
Construction and extraction occupations 17,819 1.24
Production occupations 24,018 1.24
Professional and related occupations 96,547 1.28

Source: BLS

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Dwight Steward, Ph.D.

Dr. Steward regularly writes and speaks on topics involving business and individual economic damages, employment audits, and the analysis of payroll and time data in wage and hour investigations. Dr. Steward has also held teaching positions at The University of Texas-Austin in the Department of Economics and in the Red McCombs School of Business, The College of Business at Sam Houston State University, and at The University of Iowa. He has taught numerous courses in statistics, corporate finance, labor economics, business policies, managerial economics, and microeconomics.