{"id":111819,"date":"2025-09-01T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111819\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:41:08","slug":"reasons-to-celebrate-the-san-antonio-job-market-this-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111819\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to celebrate the San Antonio job market this Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Labor Day Weekend finds the San Antonio area with a healthy job market with an unemployment rate of 3.9%, which is lower than the state and national averages.<\/p>\n

Workforce Solutions Alamo reports 1.3 million workers are on the job in 13 counties across the region, including Bexar County. Furthermore, job growth is up across all major job sectors.<\/p>\n

The number of jobs in those 13 counties has grown by 12% since 2019. Around 24,000 new jobs were added to the local market between June of last year to June of this year.<\/p>\n

Adrian Lopez, the CEO of Workforce Solutions Alamo, said the job market is doing so well that local employers may want to think of added perks to retain employees.<\/p>\n

“We still see a tightening labor market from the perspective of it becoming much more competitive … and so definitely, for employers, they need to start thinking critically and probably innovatively about how they are going to approach meeting their HR needs,” he said.<\/p>\n

Since the pandemic, one perk still exists for some employees in the San Antonio area\u2014the ability to work remotely from the office buildings.<\/p>\n

“We see that for the most part people are back in the buildings, but we still have a steady section … that shows a portion of the workforce still working remotely,” Lopez said.<\/p>\n

Pay is also looking better for workers in this competitive job market. Alamo Workforce Solutions reports average weekly pay right now in the San Antonio-New Braunfels area is $1,298 a week or $67, 500 per year.<\/p>\n

The mean hourly wage for the same metro area is $28.58.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-111819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}