Texas · SOC 51-0000 · Annual, 2025

Production occupations in Texas

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 51-0000 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 701,500 people in Texas worked in production occupations (SOC 51-0000), with an average annual wage of $59,410.

Employment in production occupations in Texas grew 6.9% from 2020 to 2025. 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.

  • 701,500Employment, 2025
  • $59,410Mean annual wage
  • 5.0%Share of Texas jobs
  • 0.90Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in production occupations in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 643,100 to 701,500.0200K400K600K800K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 643,100; 2005 654,400; 2006 678,100; 2007 690,300; 2008 686,500; 2009 624,000; 2010 607,800; 2011 629,600; 2012 655,600; 2013 668,100; 2014 684,100; 2015 679,500; 2016 657,200; 2017 659,500; 2018 686,300; 2019 703,300; 2020 656,300; 2021 651,900; 2022 677,000; 2023 687,600; 2024 690,400; 2025 701,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
2025701,453$59,407 1.6%
2024690,386$57,173 0.4%
2023687,583$55,759 1.6%
2022676,983$54,031 3.9%
2021651,875$51,839 0.7%
2020656,333$50,021 6.7%
2019703,274$48,441 2.5%
2018686,295$46,865 4.1%
2017659,494$45,772 0.4%
2016657,161$44,707 3.3%

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.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Production occupations in Texas, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for production 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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