ArchivesWage, Job Data Released for Texas Counties
By NIXIE SANDERSON
THE DALHART TEXAN The Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday released employment and wage information by county for the third quarter of 2015.
Overall, the report states that employment was up in the 24 of the largest counties in the state. Those include counties with at least 75,000 people employed. Harris County had the highest employment rate of 2,287,600, while Dallas County had 1,616,800 employed.
Nationally, employment was up 1.9 percent from September 2014 to September 2015. Wages were also up nationally, according to the report, which states that there was an increase of 2.6 percent in weekly wagesto $974.
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