TEXAS LABOR MARKET REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 2021

he monthly Labor Market Review brings you the most current labor market highlights and happenings across the Lone For additional information, TStar State. The information that follows is produced please contact: and published on a monthly basis and includes data on nonagricultural job trends, the labor force, job 1-866-938-4444 postings, and other relevant indicators for both [email protected] the state and sub-state areas. Additional data and historical information is available on our website: TexasLMI.com.

AUGUST 2021 MONTHLY INDICATORS

INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED (OTM) SEASONALLY ADJUSTED 39,300 5.9% CES program LAUS program Page 2 Page 5

HWOL INDEX (OTM) INITIAL CLAIMS (CHG) FOUR-WEEK MOVING AVERAGE 0.3% 8,138 HWOL More Indicators Page 8 Page 10

Labor Market and Career Information CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Statewide Industry Employment (Seasonally Adjusted)

otal Nonagricultural Wage and Salary employment positions, for an annual growth rate of 5.6 percent. Total Tincreased by 39,300 positions over the month in Nonfarm Employment achieved positive annual growth August after a revised gain of 93,600 jobs in July. The for the fifth consecutive month in August. Private Sector private sector added 37,500 positions while nine of 11 employment expanded by 682,200 jobs, growing by 6.8 major industries added jobs. In the 12 months ending percent annually. Every major private industry achieved August 2021, Total Nonfarm employment grew by 681,000 positive annual growth.

Aug Monthly Annual Annual % Highlights Industry 2021 Change Change Change • Professional and Business Total Nonagricultural 12,760,300 39,300 681,000 5.6 Services added 29,600 jobs in August, the most on a monthly Private 10,778,600 37,500 682,200 6.8 basis since October 2020. The Goods-Producing 1,798,700 1,000 60,100 3.5 industry added 75,600 jobs in Mining & Logging 194,100 2,900 23,900 14.0 the last four months. Construction 724,000 300 6,500 0.9 • Trade, Transportation, and Manufacturing 880,600 -2,200 29,700 3.5 Utilities industry employment rose over the month by Service-Providing 10,961,600 38,300 620,900 6.0 7,100 jobs. Wholesale Trade Trade, Transportation & Utilities 2,582,400 7,100 123,000 5.0 accounted for 4,100 jobs Information 206,900 1,400 14,900 7.8 added while Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities Financial Activities 831,600 1,700 33,500 4.2 grew by 3,700. Professional & Business Services 1,906,200 29,600 172,600 10.0 • The Education and Health Education & Health Services 1,747,300 17,800 71,200 4.2 Services industry accelerated Leisure & Hospitality 1,288,200 -25,600 175,300 15.8 expansion in August with Other Services 417,300 4,500 31,600 8.2 17,800 positions added over the month—the highest Government 1,981,700 1,800 -1,200 -0.1 amount since June 2020.

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Labor Market and Career Information 2 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Metro Areas (Seasonally Adjusted)

Aug Monthly Annual Annual % Highlights Metro Areas 2021 Change Change Change • Sixteen out of 26 metro areas added Abilene MSA 72,500 -200 2,700 3.9 jobs over the month for a combined employment increase of 47,600 Amarillo MSA 122,400 600 3,700 3.1 positions. Employment in 10 MSAs Austin-Round Rock MSA 1,145,900 3,500 69,300 6.4 declined. Every metro area achieved Beaumont-Port Arthur MSA 159,000 900 7,600 5.0 positive annual growth, with one area Brownsville-Harlingen MSA 142,200 400 2,600 1.9 equaling and four areas surpassing College Station-Bryan MSA 119,300 -100 1,300 1.1 their pre-COVID employment levels set in February 2020. Corpus Christi MSA 184,400 -100 6,100 3.4 Dallas-FW-Arlington MSA 3,818,700 27,900 208,600 5.8 • The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA led all metro areas with Dallas-Plano-Irving MD 2,734,800 11,400 153,700 6.0 14,900 positions added over the Fort Worth-Arlington MD 1,081,500 10,700 44,100 4.3 month in August, adding jobs for 15 El Paso MSA 320,000 700 8,100 2.6 of the last 16 months. Houston MSA 3,063,000 14,900 138,400 4.7 • The Dallas-Plano-Irving Metro- Killeen-Temple MSA 145,000 300 3,700 2.6 politan Division’s employment Laredo MSA 102,500 500 3,400 3.4 increased by 11,400 in August. On an Longview MSA 94,500 200 3,600 4.0 annual basis the area added 153,700 Lubbock MSA 148,700 300 3,600 2.5 positions to achieve 6.0 percent annual growth. McAllen MSA 273,700 2,300 13,700 5.3 Midland MSA 97,700 -300 6,700 7.4 • The Fort Worth-Arlington metro area added 10,700 positions over the Odessa MSA 68,200 200 1,000 1.5 month, achieving 1.0 percent monthly San Angelo MSA 47,900 -200 800 1.7 growth, which led all metro areas. MSA 1,069,800 -900 57,400 5.7 • The Austin-Round Rock area added Sherman-Denison MSA 49,300 -100 1,500 3.1 3,500 jobs over the month, reaching Texarkana MSA 58,200 -100 300 0.5 16 months of uninterrupted monthly Tyler MSA 110,900 600 7,200 6.9 growth. The area’s employment Victoria MSA 37,900 -100 800 2.2 reached 1,145,900 in August, for the first time exceeding its pre-COVID Waco MSA 125,400 -200 4,800 4.0 peak employment of 1,145,300 Wichita Falls MSA 58,300 100 1,900 3.4 achieved in February 2020.

Fastest Growing Metro Areas Over the Year

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Labor Market and Career Information 3 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Fastest Growing Metro Areas Over-the-Year (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

Midland MSA Annual Annual % Area Industry Composition Industry Change Change 100.0% Total Nonagricultural 6,500 7.1 Mining, Logging, and Construction 29.5% Mining, Logging & Construction 2,900 11.2 Manufacturing 3.3% Manufacturing 100 3.2 Trade, Transportation, and Utilities 20.2% Trade, Transportation & Utilities 1,100 5.9 Information 0.7% Information 0 0.0 4.9%Financial FinancialActivities Activities 400 9.1 9.1%ProfessionalProfessional and Business Services & Business Services -100 -1.1 6.8%EducationalEducation and Health Services & Health Services 0 0.0 11.6%Leisure andLeisure Hospitality & Hospitality 1,900 20.0 3.7%Other ServicesOther Services 100 2.9 10.1%GovernmentGovernment 100 1.0

Tyler MSA Annual Annual % Area Industry Composition Industry Change Change

100.0%Mining, Logging,Total and Nonagricultural Construction 7,100 6.8 5.4% Mining, Logging & Construction -100 -1.6 Manufacturing 7.1% Manufacturing 1,200 17.9 Trade, Transportation, and Utilities 22.5% Trade, Transportation & Utilities 1,600 6.9 Information 1.3% Information 0 0.0 Financial Activities 4.0% Financial Activities 100 2.3 10.6%ProfessionalProfessional and Business Services & Business Services 1,500 14.7 22.1%EducationalEducation and Health Services & Health Services 1,400 6.1 10.4%Leisure andLeisure Hospitality & Hospitality 1,100 10.6 4.0%Other ServicesOther Services 0 0.0 12.8%GovernmentGovernment 300 2.2

Austin-Round Rock MSA Annual Annual % Area Industry Composition Industry Change Change 100.0% Total Nonagricultural 72,100 6.7 Mining, Logging, and Construction 6.2% Mining, Logging & Construction 1,500 2.2 Manufacturing 5.6% Manufacturing 1,600 2.6 Trade, Transportation, and Utilities 17.3% Trade, Transportation & Utilities 13,000 7.0 Information 3.7% Information 3,100 7.9 6.2%Financial FinancialActivities Activities 3,400 5.0 19.6%ProfessionalProfessional and Business Services & Business Services 24,400 12.2 11.2%EducationalEducation and Health Services & Health Services 3,400 2.7 10.5%Leisure andLeisure Hospitality & Hospitality 22,000 22.4 3.8%Other ServicesOther Services 2,000 4.8 15.8%GovernmentGovernment -2,300 -1.3 Download CES excel data sheets (include industry-level data)

Labor Market and Career Information 4 LOCAL AREA UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Texas & the U.S. (Seasonally Adjusted)

Texas Aug 2021

Date CLF Employment Unemployment Rate Employed 13,292,500 Aug 20211 14,128,400 13,292,500 835,900 5.9 5.9% 2 Unemployed Jul 2021 14,105,500 13,228,800 876,700 6.2 835,900 Aug 2020 14,095,800 13,118,400 977,400 6.9

U.S. Aug 2021

Date CLF Employment Unemployment Rate Employed 153,154,000 1 5.2% Aug 20212 161,537,000 153,154,000 8,384,000 5.2 Unemployed Jul 2021 161,347,000 152,645,000 8,702,000 5.4 8,384,000 Aug 2020 160,818,000 147,276,000 13,542,000 8.4

Highlights • Over the month the Texas seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 percent, seven-tenths of a percentage point higher than the U.S. rate of 5.2 percent. • The state’s seasonally adjusted labor force participation rate was 62.3 percent in August. • Texas’ seasonally adjusted LAUS employment was up 63,700 from last month. • Summarizing the not seasonally adjusted estimates, the Texas unemployment rate decreased to 5.3 percent in August. This was 1.6 percentage points lower than the unemployment rate in August 2020.

10 Largest States' Unemployment Rates

Georgia OTM Increase North Carolina OTM Decline Michigan Current Rate Florida Ohio TexasTexas Pennsylvania Illinois New York California

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Labor Market and Career Information 5 LOCAL AREA UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS Substate Areas (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

County Highlights County Unemployment Rates • Unemployment rates varied considerably across counties, ranging from a low of 0.9 percent in King County to a high of 15.3 percent in Starr County. • Nine counties had an unemployment rate of 3.0 percent or less. • Crane County experienced the largest unemployment rate decrease of 4.5 percentage points over the year. • In August 2021, four counties experienced an increase in their unemployment rates over the month, while 247 counties experienced a decrease and three experienced no change. 3.9% and below • Over the year, the civilian labor force increased 4.0% to 4.9% in 88 counties, while 166 counties in the state 5.0% to 5.9% experienced a decline. 6.0% to 6.9% 7.0% and above

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Texas Metro Areas Ranked by Unemployment Rate

Rank Area Rate Rank Area Rate 1 Amarillo 3.6 14 Midland 5.3 2 Austin-Round Rock 3.8 0 Texas 5.3 3 Abilene 4.2 15 Killeen-Temple 5.4 3 College Station-Bryan 4.2 16 El Paso 5.8 3 Sherman-Denison 4.2 16 Laredo 5.8 6 Lubbock 4.3 16 Longview 5.8 7 San Angelo 4.5 19 Victoria 6.0 8 Waco 4.6 20 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 6.1 9 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 4.7 21 Corpus Christi 6.8 9 Tyler 4.7 22 Odessa 7.7 9 Wichita Falls 4.7 23 Brownsville-Harlingen 7.9 12 San Antonio-New Braunfels 4.8 24 Beaumont-Port Arthur 8.8 13 Texarkana 5.1 25 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 8.9 0 United States 5.3

Metro Area Highlights • Over the month, all 25 metropolitan areas experienced a decrease in their unemployment rates. • Over the year, all Texas metropolitan areas experienced a decrease in their unemployment rates. • The Odessa MSA experienced the largest over the year change, falling 4.0 percentage points.

Labor Market and Career Information 6 CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY 12-Month Moving Average Unemployment Rates

Texas Unemployment Rates by Demographic Highlights Aug Jul Aug Gender (age 16+) • The unemployment rate for males increased by 2021 2021 2020 0.7 percentage points over the year to a rate of 6.7 percent, while the rate for women decreased Female 6.4% 6.6% 6.6% by 0.2 percentage points to 6.4 percent. Male 6.7% 6.9% 6.0% • The veteran unemployment rate decreased over the month by 0.1 percentage points to 5.4 percent in August. Aug Jul Aug Age (16+) 2021 2021 2020 • Individuals with some college education or associate degree had an unemployment rate of Age 16-19 12.6% 13.6% 18.0% 6.4 percent. Those with a bachelor’s degree and Age 20-24 11.2% 11.3% 10.5% higher had an unemployment rate of 3.6 percent and those with a high school diploma had a rate Age 25-34 7.2% 7.6% 6.7% of 7.5 percent. Of the new entrants into Texas’ labor force in Age 35-44 5.6% 5.7% 4.5% • August, more were men (27,200) than women Age 45-54 5.3% 5.5% 4.6% (25,200). The number of people not in the labor force Age 55-64 4.9% 5.1% 5.6% • because they are discouraged over job prospects Age 65+ 4.9% 5.1% 5.0% in Texas increased to 52,100, up from a level of 46,500 a year ago.

Aug Jul Aug (age 16+) Race 2021 2021 2020 Unemployment Rates by Race

12% White 6.1% 6.3% 5.8% 10%

Black 10.1% 10.3% 9.3% 8%

Hispanic 7.8% 8.2% 7.4% 6%

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Aug Jul Aug 2% Other Categories (age 18+) 2021 2021 2020 0% White Black Hispanic Veterans 5.4% 5.5% 4.4% Previous Year Previous Month Aug 2021

Aug Jul Aug (age 25+) Education 2021 2021 2020 Unemployment Rates by Education 10%

Less than High School 8.8% 9.4% 8.6% 8%

6% High School Diploma 7.5% 7.7% 6.8% 4% 2% Some College or Associate Degree 6.4% 6.4% 5.5% 0% Less than HS HS Diploma Some College or Bachelor's Degree or Associate Degree Higher Bachelor's Degree or Higher 3.6% 3.8% 3.4% Previous Year Previous Month Aug 2021

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Labor Market and Career Information 7 HELP WANTED ONLINE Statewide Online Job Postings Data (Seasonally Adjusted)

Texas Labor Supply vs. Labor Demand

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Unemployment Rate HWOL Index

Highlights • The Conference Board®-Burning Glass® Help Wanted OnLine™ (HWOL) Index decreased over the month to 175.0 in August, a change of 0.6 point or 0.3 percent. • The seasonally adjusted August Supply/Demand rate was 1.2 unemployed for each advertised vacancy with a total of 155,517 more unemployed workers than advertised vacancies.

Top Employers by Postings Top Occupations by Postings Aug Employer Aug 2021 Occupation 2021 Baylor Scott & White Health 6,856 Registered Nurses 29,455 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manuf., Hospital Corporation of America 3,841 19,599 Except Technical and Scientific Products Deloitte 3,347 Customer Service Representatives 18,536 Software Developers and Software Quality Houston Methodist 3,291 17,939 Assurance Analysts and Testers UnitedHealth Group 2,950 Retail Salespersons 17,675

Christus Health 2,852 Computer Occupations, All Other 16,086

Accenture 2,741 Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 15,212

Anthem Blue Cross 2,635 Personal Service Managers, All Other 15,121

Wells Fargo 2,547 First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers 12,950

HEB 2,377 Fast Food and Counter Workers 11,721

Labor Market and Career Information 8 EMPLOYMENT NEWS Media Update

Job Gains

Amazon to offer up to $1,000 sign-on bonuses to get 11,000 more workers in D-FW Dallas Morning News DALLAS-FORT WORTH, Texas — plans to hire 125,000 more employees in the U.S., and those aren’t seasonal jobs to help with the holiday crunch. That’s coming later. About 17,000 of the new positions are in Texas, including 11,000 in Dallas-Fort Worth, said Amazon spokesman Daniel Martin.

Locally, it has opened a fulfillment center and delivery station in Forney. Delivery stations also have opened or will open soon in McKinney, Arlington, Mansfield and Fort Worth. Several more are opening in other major Texas cities. Average starting hourly wages for the new jobs are $18 to $22.50, Martin said. Hiring has started with sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000 in Texas. Hiring bonuses in other U.S. cities may be as much as $3,000, according to the company.

Self-driving delivery company Gatik to open new Fort Worth hub, creating 500 new jobs Dallas Morning News FORT WORTH, Texas — California-based autonomous delivery company Gatik is expanding its North Texas footprint with the opening of an autonomous trucking facility in Fort Worth that will bring 500 new jobs by 2025. The facility will serve as Gatik’s operations hub for Texas, where the company’s medium-duty autonomous trucks operate over 20 hours a day, every day.

The company also announced Tuesday that it raised $85 million in its latest funding round to scale its fleet of autonomous trucks across new North American markets. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, Gatik focuses on short-haul, business-to-business logistics for companies like Walmart and Canadian supermarket chain Loblaw. In April, Gatik announced a partnership with Isuzu North America Corp. to develop fully automated trucks.

Job Losses Fort Worth-based oilfield servicing company says it may lay off about 1,400 employees Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth-headquartered oilfield service company that has filed for bankruptcy protection twice in five years has suggested that it may cut the jobs of about 1,400 employees who work in three states.

Basic Energy Services, Inc. wrote in an advisory that 120 of the employees whose jobs may end work at its Burnett Plaza tower office. About 375 of the employees work elsewhere in Texas, in Big Spring, Andrews, Denver City and Kenedy. The mass layoff advisory is required by the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act, and it was released by the Texas Workforce Commission. The layoffs may occur in mid or late October.

Red River Army Depot announces huge layoff in workforce KTAL/KSHV NEW BOSTON, Texas — The Red River Army Depot has announced they are laying off nearly 200 employees later in 2021 due to a declining workload and projected reductions in other systems. According to RRAD, the reduction will impact up to 92 contract personnel and 88 government term employees in October 2021.

“The ebb and flow of our contractor and term workforce enables Red River Army Depot to surge to mission requirements when necessary,” said Red River Army Depot Commander Col. John Kredo. “The labor contract allows Red River to meet its modernization and sustainment goals while maintaining fiscal responsibility to our taxpayers.”

Labor Market and Career Information 9 KEY INDICATORS

Total Nonag Annual Employment Growth Unemployment Rates (Seasonally Adjusted) (Seasonally Adjusted) Current Month: Current Month: Texas: 5.6% US: 4.3% Texas: 5.9% US: 5.2% 15.0% 16.0% 14.0% 10.0% 12.0% 5.0% 10.0% 0.0% 8.0% 6.0% ‐5.0% 4.0% ‐10.0% 2.0% ‐15.0% 0.0%

TX US Texas U.S. Source: TWC/Bureau of Labor Statistics Source: TWC/Bureau of Labor Statistics

Initial and Continued Claims West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil (Four-Week Moving Average) vs.Texas Rig Count Current Month: Current Month: Initial Claims: 26,223 Continued Claims: 192,774 WTI: $67.70 Texas Rig Count: 231 300,000 1,400,000 $120 1,000 1,200,000 900 250,000 $100 800 1,000,000 200,000 $80 700 800,000 600 150,000 $60 500 600,000 400 100,000 400,000 $40 300 200 50,000 200,000 $20 100 0 0 $0 0

Initial Claims Continued Claims WTI Texas Rig Counts Source: TWC Source: US Energy Information Administration (EIA) & Baker Hughes

Consumer Price Index Annual Growth Average Hourly Earnings (Not Seasonally Adjusted) (Total Private, Not Seasonally Adjusted) Current Month: Current Month: Dallas-Fort Worth: 5.6% Houston: 5.3% Texas: $29.01 US: $30.80 8% $32 $30 6% $28 4% $26 2% $24

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Labor Market and Career Information 10 GLOSSARY

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS LOCAL AREA UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS This Federal/State cooperative program produces This Federal/State cooperative program produces estimates drawn from a monthly survey of nonfarm employment and unemployment estimates by place of business establishments used to collect wage and salary residence. employment, worker hours and payroll by industry and area. It counts the number of jobs, not of people. Employed - All persons 16 years and over who, during the reference week, (a) did any work at all (at least 1 Nonagricultural Jobs - The total number of persons hour) as paid employees, worked on their own business, on establishment payrolls employed full or part time. profession, or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or Persons on the payroll of more than one establishment more as unpaid family workers, or (b) were not working are counted in each. Data exclude proprietors, self- but who had jobs from which they were temporarily employed, unpaid family or volunteer workers, absent. Each employed person is counted only once, farm workers, and domestic workers. Government even if the person holds more than one job. employment only covers civilian employees. Unemployed - All persons aged 16 years and over who Actual or Not Seasonally Adjusted - Describes the data had no employment, were available for work, and had series not subject to the seasonal adjustment process. In made specific efforts to find employment. Includes other words, the effects of regular, or seasonal, patterns persons who were waiting to be recalled to jobs from have not been removed from these series. which they had been laid off.

Seasonally Adjusted - The effects of regular, or seasonal, Civilian Labor Force (CLF) - All persons classified as patterns of hiring or layoffs (holidays, weather, etc.) employed or unemployed. have been removed from these series. These adjustments make it easier to observe the cyclical and other non- Unemployment Rate - The unemployed number seasonal movements in a data series. divided by the civilian labor force number.

HELP WANTED ONLINE MISCELLANEOUS The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine® (HWOL) Metropolitan Division (MD) - A Metropolitan Statistical data series and index (July 2018=100) provides monthly Area with a population of 2.5 million which is subdivided measures of labor demand (advertised vacancies) at the into smaller groupings is referred to as Metropolitan national, regional, state, and metropolitan area levels. Divisions (MDs). Supply-Demand rate - A ratio measuring the number Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) - A geographic area of unemployed persons per Help Wanted Online job that contains at least one urbanized center of 50,000 or openings. more population plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core INDICATORS urban location. An MSA in Texas is made up of one or Initial Claims - A count of notices of unemployment more counties. received requesting a determination of eligibility for UI benefits. A person can file multiple claims. Metro Area - Can refer either to a Metropolitan Statisical Area or a Metropolitan Division. Texas has 25 MSAs, Continued Claims - A count of claimants who have including the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA which is qualified for and are receiving UI benefits. subdivided into two MDs.

Consumer Price Index - An index of the variation in Workforce Development Area (WDA) - The State of prices paid by typical consumers for retail goods and Texas is divided into twenty-eight (28) local workforce other items. development areas.

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