AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — Texas Labor Market Achieves Five Consecutive Months of Record High Jobs with More Than 37,000 Added in April.
The Texas labor market reached record highs in both total jobs and the size of the civilian labor force in April. Texas added 37,700 positions over the month to reach a total of 14,320,100 nonfarm jobs. The state added 215,500 jobs over the year, bringing the annual nonfarm growth rate to 1.5 percent, which outpaced the national growth rate by 0.3 percentage points.
Texas’s civilian labor force achieved another new record high of 15,814,400 after adding 35,900 people over the month and marking 58 of 60 months of growth. Over the years, the Texas civilian labor force has added 292,400 people…