Texas · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Texas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 990,500 people in Texas across roughly 30,762 establishments, with average annual pay of $97,510.

Employment in Manufacturing in Texas grew 13.8% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 990,500. 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.

  • 990,500Employment, 2025
  • 30,762Establishments
  • $97,510Avg. annual pay
  • 7.0%Share of Texas jobs
  • 0.87Location 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

Employment in Manufacturing in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 892,900 to 990,500.0250K500K750K1M20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 892,900; 2005 903,600; 2006 930,200; 2007 938,500; 2008 927,100; 2009 841,400; 2010 814,200; 2011 840,100; 2012 867,700; 2013 877,500; 2014 890,400; 2015 881,200; 2016 848,200; 2017 854,400; 2018 882,300; 2019 908,800; 2020 870,800; 2021 877,200; 2022 928,200; 2023 958,000; 2024 976,300; 2025 990,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025990,50330,762$97,507 1.5%est. · 1.00
2024976,32030,076$94,409 1.9%est. · 1.00
2023958,02829,201$91,156 3.2%est. · 1.00
2022928,17428,175$87,371 5.8%est. · 1.00
2021877,23527,086$83,487 0.7%est. · 1.00
2020870,76226,261$81,186 4.2%est. · 1.00
2019908,80825,581$79,746 3.0%est. · 1.00
2018882,33824,763$77,636 3.3%est. · 1.00
2017854,35724,280$75,807 0.7%est. · 1.00
2016848,16823,783$73,127 3.8%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing111,61911.3%0.69pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing24,2642.5%0.82pub.
313Textile Mills1,9810.2%0.27pub.
314Textile Product Mills5,3150.5%0.63pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing4,6500.5%0.65pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing4,7000.5%2.19pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing27,4732.8%0.75pub.
322Paper Manufacturing19,6792.0%0.62pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities23,3552.4%0.74pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing21,2652.1%2.15pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing90,3159.1%1.12est. · 1.00
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing44,5274.5%0.70pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing41,9974.2%1.12pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing22,5612.3%0.69pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing138,47114.0%1.07pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing95,1239.6%0.97pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing103,39210.4%1.14pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing27,0032.7%0.69pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing121,89312.3%0.76pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing22,9242.3%0.76pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing37,9973.8%0.69pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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Manufacturing in Texas, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in Texas. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.