Government Payroll Employment for Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (MSA) (HOUGOVTA158MFRBDAL)

May 2026: 3.04194
Updated: Jun 24, 2026 5:50 PM CDT
May 2026:  3.04194  
Apr 2026:  2.29972  
Mar 2026:  2.66439  
Feb 2026:  -0.24545  
Jan 2026:  -5.66095  
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Percent Change at Annual Rate,
Seasonally Adjusted

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Notes

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas  

Release: Texas Employment Data  

Units:  Percent Change at Annual Rate, Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

Notes:

The Dallas Fed has improved the quality of the payroll employment estimates for Metropolitan Areas of Texas using early benchmarking and two-step seasonal adjustment. More information regarding the early benchmarking technique can be found at http://www.dallasfed.org/research/basics/benchmark.cfm. More information pertaining to two-step seasonal adjustment can be found at http://www.dallasfed.org/research/basics/twostep.cfm.

Suggested Citation:

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Government Payroll Employment for Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (MSA) [HOUGOVTA158MFRBDAL], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUGOVTA158MFRBDAL, .

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