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More than a year's hotel tax, still unspentWhy one sector accounts for nearly half of Texas’ job growth
A sector with 15% of Texas jobs supplied 45% of its net annual job gain.
How to read this
Two views show the same sector. The first asks how much of the net annual gain came from professional and business services. The second asks how much of all Texas employment sits in that sector.
These are independent comparisons with different denominators. They do not show workers moving between sectors.
1 Share of the gain
Professional and business services supplied nearly half of Texas’ net new jobs.
45%
69,400of 154,300 net new jobs
Denominator: 154,300 net new payroll jobs, Sep 2025–Sep 2026.
2 Share of all jobs
The same sector represents a much smaller share of existing employment.
15%
2,192,000jobs in professional and business services
Denominator: 14,461,300 Texas payroll jobs in September 2026.
Each diagram has 100 marks. Shares rounded to the nearest whole percentage point.
What this tells us
The annual gain was concentrated in professional and business services.
Net gain includes both growing and shrinking sectors. Against the gross gains in growing sectors, the sector’s share is 40.6%.
Payroll jobs are counted by job location, not people. September 2026 is preliminary; estimates are subject to revision.
Open the full visualizationSee all sector changes
| Sector | Net change |
|---|---|
| Professional and Business Services | +69,400 |
| Trade, Transportation, and Utilities | +28,600 |
| Leisure and Hospitality | +24,900 |
| Private Education and Health Services | +18,100 |
| Construction | +15,000 |
| Manufacturing | +8,400 |
| Other Services | +3,600 |
| Mining and Logging | +3,100 |
| Financial Activities | -2,000 |
| Government | -6,100 |
| Information | -8,700 |
Sources & method
- Texas Workforce Commission press release, Oct 16, 2026: Texas nonagricultural wage and salary employment, seasonally adjusted
- BLS Current Employment Statistics, Texas total nonfarm (SMS48000000000000001) and supersector series, seasonally adjusted
- BLS CES national total nonfarm (CES0000000001)
Method
Supersector job counts from TWC’s Oct 16, 2026 release (September 2026 preliminary, August 2026 revised), checked against BLS CES: September 2025 values match exactly. Share of net gain divides each sector’s over-the-year change by the net +154,300; gross gains sum the eight growing sectors (171,100). Prior-September shares use current BLS estimates. Payroll jobs by job location, not people. TWC’s comparison with the national rate is attributed to TWC.
Coverage
Sep 2025–Sep 2026 · September 2026 preliminary