Texas job openings by major occupational group

Texas June 2014

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 May 2014.

Occupation openings s2jratio
Management, business, and financial occupations 54098 0.7
Professional and related occupations 77613 1.19
Office and administrative support occupations 52093 1.2
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 16796 1.42
Service occupations 61409 1.65
Sales and related occupations 26907 1.76
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 888 2.24
Transportation and material moving occupations 17950 2.28
Production occupations 20146 2.7
Construction and extraction occupations 15616 5.01

Texas job openings by major occupational group

Texas June 2014

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 May 2014.

Occupation openings s2jratio
Management, business, and financial occupations 54098 0.7
Professional and related occupations 77613 1.19
Office and administrative support occupations 52093 1.2
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 16796 1.42
Service occupations 61409 1.65
Sales and related occupations 26907 1.76
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 888 2.24
Transportation and material moving occupations 17950 2.28
Production occupations 20146 2.7
Construction and extraction occupations 15616 5.01

Published by

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.