A Summary of the State of Texas Workforce for Fiscal Year 2006
January 2007
Report Number 07-707
Overall Conclusion
In fiscal year 2006, Texas state agencies employed 144,934 classified regular full- and part-time employees. An additional 11,076 employees worked in temporary, exempt, and unclassified positions, and an additional 187,550 employees worked at higher education institutions. This report focuses only on employees of state agencies.
The average state employee is 43.4 years old, earns an annual salary of $34,817, and has been employed by the State for 10 years. The majority of state employees are female (54 percent) and work in professional positions. The State's workforce is ethnically diverse, with 55 percent white, 23 percent Hispanic, and 21 percent black employees.
The State should expect significant competition in recruiting and retaining employees in occupations with the largest job growth (such as systems analysts) and the fastest growing occupations (such as medical technicians). It also should expect significant competition for other highly skilled, hard-to-recruit occupations such as nurses and correctional officers.
Trends in the workforce present ongoing challenges for the State. Workforce trends and challenges that have the greatest influence on the State and its workforce relate to economic, employment, and quality of life issues.
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