Texas job openings by major occupational group

Texas August 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 August 2014.

Occupation Job Openings Searcher-To-Job Ratio
Management, business, and financial occupations 91,231 0.82
Professional and related occupations 139,533 1.44
Office and administrative support occupations 82,231 1.75
Sales and related occupations 47,483 2.00
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 24,023 2.16
Service occupations 108,172 2.32
Transportation and material moving occupations 28,741 2.86
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 1,765 3.65
Production occupations 27,017 4.53
Construction and extraction occupations 16,640 8.20

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.