Healthcare and education job growth in Dallas-Fort Worth continues to outstrip the area’s overall growth rate, according to the June 2012 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Monday.
DFW healthcare services and education jobs grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent, or 9,000 jobs, between June 2011 and June 2012, to more than 374,000 jobs. The sector accounted for more than one out of six local non-farm jobs created in the past year. The only sectors that grew faster were leisure/hospitality and financial activities.
By comparison, Houston’s healthcare and education job growth was a torrid 6.5 percent, more than two-and-a-half times greater than in DFW. Houston has added 20,600 jobs in that sector since June 2011.
The Texas healthcare workforce is expected grow by more than a third this decade, according to a report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and Workforce.
