Texas · NAICS 711 · Annual, 2025

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Texas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 711 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (NAICS 711) employed about 33,000 people in Texas across roughly 3,612 establishments, with average annual pay of $119,440.

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Texas grew 52.7% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Texas than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.62). Average pay in the industry is 53.1% above the all-industries average in Texas. 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.

  • 33,000Employment, 2025
  • 3,612Establishments
  • $119,440Avg. annual pay
  • 0.2%Share of Texas jobs
  • 0.62Location 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 Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 21,300 to 33,000.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 21,300; 2005 20,500; 2006 20,800; 2007 21,200; 2008 21,000; 2009 22,500; 2010 23,400; 2011 23,500; 2012 23,500; 2013 25,300; 2014 27,000; 2015 27,500; 2016 28,100; 2017 28,800; 2018 29,800; 2019 31,000; 2020 21,600; 2021 23,900; 2022 28,700; 2023 30,900; 2024 32,400; 2025 33,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202533,0163,612$119,443 2.1%est. · 1.00
202432,3523,455$113,443 4.8%est. · 1.00
202330,8643,268$114,211 7.4%est. · 1.00
202228,7362,997$103,555 20.0%est. · 1.00
202123,9452,777$100,457 10.8%est. · 1.00
202021,6212,608$102,096 30.3%est. · 1.00
201931,0182,488$86,268 4.0%est. · 1.00
201829,8192,376$79,326 3.5%est. · 1.00
201728,7992,297$80,560 2.5%est. · 1.00
201628,1052,214$77,624 2.0%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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. 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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Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Texas, quarterly, at full depth

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