This is what a Texas-size recovery looks like. Dallas-Fort Worth added 275,800 jobs in the 12 months ended in February, almost three times more than a typical...
That’s nearly triple the usual annual gain, and restaurants led the way. One firm says D-FW is also the nation’s hottest hiring market in 2022.
Restaurants and bars, which were crushed by the pandemic, grew jobs in North Texas by a whopping 16.5%. They had a net gain of almost 45,000 jobs in 12 months, enough new hires to match the industry’s employment before the pandemic hit.and TNT/Tacos and Tequila. From 2012 to 2019, D-FW added an average of nearly 100,000 jobs a year, consistently ranking among the nation’s best-performing metros. In 2020, after the pandemic lockdowns, the region lost just over 120,000 employees.
“Texas is roaring back,” Percival said. “A lot of our industries are now back on track with their historical growth.” Usually, servers earn more in tips than the guaranteed minimum, thanks to the increase in customer traffic. , a Dallas-based software services company that focuses on the labor market, projects that D-FW will add 118,000 employees in 2022. That would put Dallas behind New York, Los Angeles and Chicago., chief labor market analyst at ThinkWhy. “We expect job growth to start to moderate — closer to what we’ve seen previously.”
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