Austin's Booming Job Market: Tech, Healthcare, and a Diverse Economy Thrive in 2025

Austin’s job market in 2025 remains among the strongest in the United States, earning recognition from CoworkingCafe as the top large economic boomtown with the fastest-growing GDP, a 51 percent surge between 2019 and 2023. Austin’s employment landscape is fueled by robust job creation in technology, manufacturing, and professional services, as well as a dynamic artistic sector and expanding educational institutions. Opportunity Austin estimates the region generated $248 billion in GDP for 2023. The city’s population growth outpaces national averages, driving a 12 percent increase in housing stock and a 33 percent rise in median income since 2020. Unemployment remains historically low according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, lingering near 2 percent in early to mid-2025, contributing to strong labor force participation. However, recent months have shown a modest cooling in tech hiring and housing demand, even as layoffs stay low.

Major industries in Austin include information technology, with leading employers such as Atlassian, Osano, MongoDB, Apptronik, and Wise expanding in software, artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech, and data privacy. Dell Technologies, Whole Foods, and the University of Texas remain core employers. Healthcare has emerged as a rapidly growing sector as well, with the national healthcare software market expanding and local demand for healthcare professionals, telehealth experts, and medical software engineers rising. Manufacturing is attracting new facility investment, supported by Texas’s growing electricity infrastructure, although supply and demand for power remains a key challenge for sustainable industrial expansion. Construction, education, and the creative arts, including music and film, continue to add to Austin’s broad-based growth.

Recent developments include a 71 percent surge in new business applications since 2019, significant job openings in software, engineering, healthcare, and financial services, as well as sustained demand for skilled trades. Central Texas small business conferences and government training programs, such as Governor Abbott’s Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grants, are helping equip workers with high-demand technical skills. The City of Austin’s recognition as a Forbes top employer underscores innovation in workplace culture and public sector hiring. Commuting trends reflect a hybrid office culture, with increased demand for transportation options and flexible scheduling, but specific up-to-date commuter data remains limited for 2025. Seasonally, hiring peaks in spring and early summer, consistent with the city’s festival-driven economy and university cycles.

Austin’s job market continues to evolve, driven by tech innovation, a diverse industrial base, entrepreneurial activity, and state-backed workforce training. However, data gaps persist around the most current sector-specific workforce statistics and day-to-day commuter patterns.

Current job openings in Austin include account executives at Apollo.io in tech sales, engineering roles at MongoDB’s Austin office, and the Director of the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office in state government.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Austin's job market in twenty twenty five remains among the
strongest in the United States, earning recognition from Cowworking Cafe
as the top large economic boomtown with the fastest growing GDP,
a fifty one percent surge between twenty nineteen and twenty
twenty three. Austin's employment landscape is fueled by robust job

(00:20):
creation in technology, manufacturing, and professional services, as well as
a dynamic artistics sector and expanding educational institutions. Opperd Austin
estimates the region generated two hundred forty eight billion dollars
in GDP for twenty twenty three. The city's population growth
outpaces national averages, driving a twelve percent increase in housing

(00:44):
stock and a thirty three per cent rise in median
income since twenty twenty. Unemployment remains historically low, according to
the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, lingering near two percent
in early to mid twenty twenty five, contributing to long
labor force participation. However, recent months have shown a modest

(01:05):
cooling in tech hiring and housing demand, even as layoffs
stay low. Major industries in Austin include information technology, with
leading employers such as Atlasian, Orsano, Mongo, d Aptronic, and
Wise expanding in software, artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech and data privacy,

(01:27):
Dell Technologies, Whole Foods, and the University of Texas remain
core employers. Healthcare has emerged as a rapidly growing sector
as well, with the national health care software market expanding
and local demand for health care professionals, telehealth experts, and
medical software engineers rising. Manufacturing is attracting new facility investment,

(01:50):
supported by Texas' growing electricity infrastructure, although supply and demand
for power remains a key challenge for sustainable industrial expansion. Construction, education,
and the creative arts, including music and film, continue to

(02:13):
add to Austin's broad based growth. Recent developments include a
seventy one percent surge in new business applications since twenty nineteen,
significant job openings and software engineering, health care, and financial services,
as well as sustained demand for skilled trades Central Texas
small business conferences in government training programs such as Governor

(02:36):
Abbot's Jobs and Education for Texans JET grants are helping
equip workers with high demand technical skills. The City of
Austin's recognition as a Forbes Top employer underscores innovation in
workplace culture and public sector hiring. Commuting trends reflect a
hybrid office culture with increased demand for transportation options and
flexible scheduling, but specific up to date commuter data remains

(02:59):
lintmitted for twenty twenty five. Seasonally, hiring peaks in spring
in early summer, consistent with the city's festival driven economy
and university cycles. Austin's job market continues to evolve, driven
by tech innovation, a diverse industrial base, entrepreneurial activity, and

(03:20):
state backed workforce training. However, data gaps persist around the
most current sector specific workforce statistics and day to day
commuter patterns. Current job openings in Austin include account executives
at Apollo dot Io in tech, sales, engineering roles at
Mongote's Austin office, and the director of the Texas Regulatory

(03:41):
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