Texas · NAICS 236 · Annual, 2025

Construction of Buildings in Texas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 236 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction of Buildings (NAICS 236) employed about 207,400 people in Texas across roughly 19,161 establishments, with average annual pay of $102,420.

Employment in Construction of Buildings in Texas grew 6.3% from 2024 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 207,400. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Texas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 207,400Employment, 2025
  • 19,161Establishments
  • $102,420Avg. annual pay
  • 1.5%Share of Texas jobs
  • 1.23Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction of Buildings in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 132,000 to 207,400.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 132,000; 2005 136,400; 2006 147,300; 2007 154,100; 2008 158,800; 2009 139,300; 2010 131,300; 2011 130,700; 2012 129,700; 2013 135,000; 2014 146,300; 2015 157,100; 2016 160,100; 2017 159,600; 2018 159,800; 2019 164,000; 2020 152,300; 2021 155,900; 2022 171,300; 2023 186,200; 2024 195,200; 2025 207,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025207,41319,161$102,420 6.3%pub.
2024195,17918,800$99,422 4.9%pub.
2023186,15918,469$95,821 8.7%pub.
2022171,30417,711$92,666 9.9%pub.
2021155,88616,444$88,708 2.4%pub.
2020152,29815,429$85,103 7.1%pub.
2019163,99914,784$82,651 2.6%pub.
2018159,83914,205$81,328 0.2%pub.
2017159,56613,439$79,154 0.3%pub.
2016160,06512,775$77,521 1.9%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Construction of Buildings in Texas, quarterly, at full depth

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