<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Houston, Texas.Art Wager/Getty Images</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Texas is seeing a strong labor market, with record-high employment figures.</li><li>Business Insider looked at Bureau of Labor Statistics data to check out how pay looks in Texas.</li></ul><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-of-color-texas-population-growth-economy-2024-2">Texas</a> has a booming labor market.</p><p>March data from the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.tx.htm">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a> shows the state has a record-high number of people in the labor force and a record-high number of jobs.</p><p>Starting in June 2023, the unemployment rate in Texas has consistently been 3.9%, and the rate has been close to or at the national <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-market-april-unemployment-rate-job-growth-wages-2024-5">unemployment rate</a> during 2024 so far. Plus, <a target="_blank" href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TXNA#0">the state added</a> over 80,000 jobs in the first three months of the year.</p><p>Amid a robust job market and with around 15.2 million people in the <a target="_blank" href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TXLF">Texas labor force</a>, Business Insider decided to look at what <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/economy-adding-low-paying-healthcare-retail-jobs-high-wages-scarce-2024-5">pay</a> opportunities look like in the state based on recently published data.</p><p>Around two dozen jobs in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-of-living-texas-cities-prices-housing-medical-energy-2023-9">Texas</a> pay an average of over $175,000, including architectural and engineering managers, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and athletes and other sports competitors.</p><p>That's based on average annual wage data from the <a target="_blank" rel href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/"><u>May 2023 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates</u></a> published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. BI focused on jobs that had data available for Texas from that release. While pediatric surgeon is a high-paying job in the state, we didn't include it in our ranking below because it didn't have a specific estimate stated.</p><p>Below are the highest-paying jobs in Texas along with their average annual wages and employment estimates in the state.</p>