Texas Postings Jump to 209 New Roles This Week, Up From 65

Texas went from 65 new postings to 209 in a week across the employer job boards we track. That is 144 more roles and a 222% increase, and it puts Texas third among states for new postings this week, behind California at 480 and New York at 324.

The national week was also up sharply. On a like-for-like basis (counting only boards we were already tracking before the comparison started, so newly added boards can't read as a hiring boom), new postings went from 1,593 to 3,033, a 90% increase. Texas grew faster than that, which lifted its share of those new postings from 4.1% to 6.9%. It is a real move, but a modest one in absolute terms: 144 extra roles in a week is a small number against 57,025 open listings site-wide.

Where Texas sits in the state pack

Texas is among the 12 states with the most new roles on the boards we track right now, and each state's weekly number is sensitive to a single large employer refreshing its board.

Pennsylvania and Idaho were the only states in the top group that shrank week over week: Pennsylvania had 52 new postings against 72, and Idaho 47 against 53. Everything else in the top twelve rose, and some rose off small bases: Georgia went from 15 to 90 and Florida from 35 to 127. Against those, Texas's jump is less dramatic in percentage terms than it looks in isolation: it started from a real base of 65 rather than from a standing start.

What we can and can't attribute

One limit: our employer and occupation leaderboards this week are site-wide, not broken out by state, so we can't say which companies put those 209 Texas roles up. What we can say is which employers drove the national week they sit inside.

Target led with 327 new postings against 600 open, Cleveland Clinic added 294 of its 911 open roles, and Marriott International added 231 — nearly its entire open book of 243. Tyson Foods added 220 of 595 open. Retail, hospital systems, hotels and food processing all have Texas footprints, but the packet doesn't let us trace any specific posting to the state, so treat that as context rather than attribution.

On the technology side, NVIDIA added 176 new roles against 832 open, Accenture 169, Medtronic 151 and SAP 115. Merck added 171 and Albertsons 123.

We also have no occupation mix for Texas, so the composition of the Texas jump is unknown. Posted pay offers one occupational signal, though it is national rather than Texas-specific: employer-posted ranges annualized to USD put Software Engineer at a median of $240,000 across 1,276 listings, Machine Learning Engineer at $280,000 across 115, and Sales Representative at $81,238 across 179. Those are what employers printed, not what anyone reports earning.

The wider week

The full crawl logged 9,941 new roles and 8,609 closed in the last seven days, with 691 employers hiring. New roles outpaced closures for the week. Remote roles were 5% of new postings. You can see the current Texas list on the Texas jobs page, or start from Job search; our crawling method is written up at How we crawl employer boards.

Correction, October 11, 2026: An earlier version of this post counted every closed listing rather than closed roles, and compared each week with the one before using only roles still open, which overstated closures and growth. The figures above have been recomputed, and comparisons the data cannot yet support have been removed.

Correction, October 19, 2026: The pay medians in this post were calculated from the top of each posted pay range rather than its midpoint, which is the basis our occupation pages use. Midpoint medians are typically 10% to 17% lower than the figures shown here.