Texas job openings by major occupational group for January

Texas January 2015

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 January 2015.

Occupation Job Openings Searchers-to-Job Ratio
Management, business, and financial occupations 56,662 0.58
Professional and related occupations 83,549 0.67
Office and administrative support occupations 55,482 0.89
Sales and related occupations 30,126 1.18
Service occupations 64,965 1.42
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 18,437 1.48
Transportation and material moving occupations 19,703 1.67
Production occupations 21,721 2.09
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 937 5.4
Construction and extraction occupations 14,583 5.44

Source: BLS

Texas job openings by major occupational group for January

Texas January 2015

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 January 2015.

Occupation Job Openings Searchers-to-Job Ratio
Management, business, and financial occupations 56,662 0.58
Professional and related occupations 83,549 0.67
Office and administrative support occupations 55,482 0.89
Sales and related occupations 30,126 1.18
Service occupations 64,965 1.42
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 18,437 1.48
Transportation and material moving occupations 19,703 1.67
Production occupations 21,721 2.09
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 937 5.4
Construction and extraction occupations 14,583 5.44

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.