Top Texas Touts: Jobs

Texas led the nation in job creation in 2025, for the fourth year in a row..
Texas hit new historic highs for the number of Texans working, for total jobs, and for the size of the Texas labor force in 2025.
More Texans are working than 46 states have in population.
99.8% of Texas businesses are small; these 3.5 million small businesses employ nearly half of all working Texans.
Texas is a top state for small business job growth
Texas is home to 1 in 5 of the nation’s Hispanic business owners and more than 1 in 10 of the nation’s Black business owners.
Texas is home to more than 1.5 million women business owners.
Tourism supports more than 1.3 million jobs in Texas.
Exports support 1.1 million Texas jobs.
Texas leads the nation for jobs in financial services and is home to 3 stock exchanges .
Texas is the top state for growth in tech jobs with the second-largest semiconductor workforce.
In 2025, Texas entrepreneurs filed more than 540,000 new business applications.

As of July 8, 2026