Texas · NAICS 492 · Annual, 2025
Couriers and Messengers in Texas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 492 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Couriers and Messengers (NAICS 492) employed about 86,200 people in Texas across roughly 1,561 establishments, with average annual pay of $49,560.
Employment in Couriers and Messengers in Texas grew 18.1% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 36.5% below the all-industries average in Texas. 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.
- 86,200Employment, 2025
- 1,561Establishments
- $49,560Avg. annual pay
- 0.6%Share of Texas jobs
- 0.85Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 35,300; 2005 36,400; 2006 37,500; 2007 38,100; 2008 38,200; 2009 35,400; 2010 34,200; 2011 35,100; 2012 36,000; 2013 37,500; 2014 41,400; 2015 45,000; 2016 48,700; 2017 51,700; 2018 55,200; 2019 61,500; 2020 73,000; 2021 83,300; 2022 87,000; 2023 83,400; 2024 83,100; 2025 86,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86,190 | 1,561 | $49,561 | 3.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 83,056 | 1,580 | $49,911 | 0.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 83,381 | 1,611 | $47,292 | 4.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 86,972 | 1,631 | $44,313 | 4.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 83,318 | 1,530 | $44,874 | 14.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 72,969 | 1,423 | $42,926 | 18.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 61,494 | 1,316 | $41,290 | 11.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 55,213 | 1,255 | $41,017 | 6.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 51,722 | 1,293 | $39,869 | 6.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 48,703 | 1,375 | $38,985 | 8.1% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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.
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Couriers and Messengers in Texas, quarterly, at full depth
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