Texas · SOC 23-0000 · Annual, 2025
Legal occupations in Texas
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 23-0000 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 97,700 people in Texas worked in legal occupations (SOC 23-0000), with an average annual wage of $158,790.
Employment in legal occupations in Texas grew 12.0% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 103.5% above the all-occupations average in Texas. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 97,700. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 97,700Employment, 2025
- $158,790Mean annual wage
- 0.7%Share of Texas jobs
- 0.83Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 72,000; 2005 72,400; 2006 72,800; 2007 73,100; 2008 73,800; 2009 72,600; 2010 72,900; 2011 73,400; 2012 74,800; 2013 75,900; 2014 76,800; 2015 78,100; 2016 79,300; 2017 79,000; 2018 82,600; 2019 87,100; 2020 87,200; 2021 87,800; 2022 88,700; 2023 92,000; 2024 95,500; 2025 97,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97,740 | $158,792 | 2.3% |
| 2024 | 95,504 | $150,476 | 3.8% |
| 2023 | 91,978 | $148,293 | 3.7% |
| 2022 | 88,735 | $145,605 | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 87,814 | $138,605 | 0.7% |
| 2020 | 87,245 | $131,286 | 0.2% |
| 2019 | 87,106 | $127,490 | 5.4% |
| 2018 | 82,636 | $126,558 | 4.6% |
| 2017 | 79,010 | $125,184 | 0.3% |
| 2016 | 79,283 | $123,304 | 1.5% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Legal occupations in Texas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for legal occupations in Texas. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.