Texas · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in Texas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 936,600 people in Texas across roughly 66,011 establishments, with average annual pay of $86,120.

Employment in Construction in Texas grew 5.0% from 2024 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 936,600. 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.

  • 936,600Employment, 2025
  • 66,011Establishments
  • $86,120Avg. annual pay
  • 6.6%Share of Texas jobs
  • 1.23Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 577,900 to 936,600.0250K500K750K1M20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 577,900; 2005 600,800; 2006 639,600; 2007 681,300; 2008 706,100; 2009 630,400; 2010 596,700; 2011 595,800; 2012 615,600; 2013 644,200; 2014 682,800; 2015 714,200; 2016 730,100; 2017 740,400; 2018 771,400; 2019 806,900; 2020 770,100; 2021 769,700; 2022 814,300; 2023 855,400; 2024 892,000; 2025 936,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025936,58466,011$86,121 5.0%pub.
2024891,99564,946$82,714 4.3%pub.
2023855,43163,418$78,696 5.1%pub.
2022814,30260,998$75,098 5.8%pub.
2021769,74758,124$70,639 0.0%pub.
2020770,07255,689$68,316 4.6%pub.
2019806,88753,924$66,939 4.6%pub.
2018771,44752,083$64,924 4.2%pub.
2017740,35849,989$62,716 1.4%pub.
2016730,10848,105$61,184 2.2%pub.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings207,41322.1%1.23pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction234,35825.0%1.90pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors494,81252.8%1.05pub.

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 in Texas, quarterly, at full depth

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