Texas · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Texas
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 142,000 people in Texas worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $79,670.
Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Texas grew 19.0% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 142,000. 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.
- 142,000Employment, 2025
- $79,670Mean annual wage
- 1.0%Share of Texas jobs
- 0.76Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 116,500; 2005 118,400; 2006 121,500; 2007 124,200; 2008 124,300; 2009 119,100; 2010 118,900; 2011 119,500; 2012 122,000; 2013 125,300; 2014 128,700; 2015 131,800; 2016 133,000; 2017 135,000; 2018 134,200; 2019 133,200; 2020 119,300; 2021 123,000; 2022 132,200; 2023 140,900; 2024 141,800; 2025 142,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 141,951 | $79,669 | 0.1% |
| 2024 | 141,832 | $76,708 | 0.6% |
| 2023 | 140,933 | $74,634 | 6.6% |
| 2022 | 132,170 | $72,738 | 7.4% |
| 2021 | 123,010 | $69,966 | 3.1% |
| 2020 | 119,297 | $66,174 | 10.5% |
| 2019 | 133,235 | $64,391 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 134,166 | $62,281 | 0.7% |
| 2017 | 135,044 | $61,239 | 1.6% |
| 2016 | 132,978 | $59,660 | 0.9% |
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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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Texas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Texas. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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