{"id":440154,"date":"2026-09-18T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440154\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:54:09","slug":"texas-adds-5600-jobs-in-august-as-unemployment-holds-at-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440154\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas adds 5,600 jobs in August as unemployment holds at 4.4%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-Sep-18-2026-10_29_22-AM-640x400.png\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Texas adds 5,600 jobs in August as unemployment holds at 4.4%\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tTexas added 5,600 nonfarm jobs in August (September 18, 2026)\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0Texas added 5,600 nonfarm jobs in August, bringing total employment to 14.47 million, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"489\">The state added 159,400 jobs over the past year, a 1.1% annual growth rate that outpaced the national rate by 0.7 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"638\">Texas\u2019 seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 4.4%, while the civilian labor force grew by 17,100 people in August to 15.93 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"808\">Leisure and hospitality posted the largest private-sector gain, adding 4,900 jobs. Professional and business services added 4,500, while manufacturing gained 2,200.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"959\">Among major Texas metro areas, Midland had the lowest unemployment rate at 3.3%, followed by San Angelo at 3.6% and Abilene and Amarillo at 3.7%.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"961\" data-end=\"1111\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Employment figures are produced by the Texas Workforce Commission in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and are subject to revision.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas added 5,600 nonfarm jobs in August (September 18, 2026) SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0Texas added 5,600 nonfarm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[152352,32071,2184,82,84,83,27],"class_list":["post-440154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-adds","tag-august","tag-jobs","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}