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Samantar is not a job board. We do not host job applications, do not recruit, and do not refer candidates to employers. The numbers on this page come from a sample of public Texas job postings (an estimated 5–15% of the active market) and are shown to surface market trends — typical pay, in-demand metros, employer concentration, cert/license signals — not absolute hiring volume. Salary, employer, and metro figures are statistical estimates based on what's been collected; they may include outliers, mis-tagged postings, or unit-conversion errors. Nothing on this page is financial, career, or employment advice — see the disclaimer in the footer.
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Every credentialed route people take into this career — degrees, certificates, apprenticeships, on-the-job training, and military pathways. Each card shows typical duration, total cost range, whether a license is required, and a click-through to the Texas colleges that teach it (when applicable).
Salary stats — Texas-wide
BLS benchmark
Texas-wide survey of actual wages paid to currently-employed workers in this career.
Why two numbers? The "Advertised" tile shows what's currently posted in our sample of Texas postings (~5–15% of the active market); only about 78% of postings disclose salary, and posting figures usually skew low because employers commonly advertise the floor of a pay band ("starting at $X" / "from $X"). The "BLS OEWS" tile shows what Texas workers in this career currently earn per the federal BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics survey — a comprehensive employer-side sample.
How to use them: postings for "what's the open-roles market doing right now"; BLS for "what does this career pay."
10-year employment outlook
Side-by-side U.S. and Texas long-term projections. U.S. = BLS Employment Projections (2024–2034 cycle). Texas = TWC Long-Term Occupational Projections (2022–2032) via Projections Central. State-level numbers are usually a better signal for TX users because TX is one of the fastest-growing labor markets.
U.S. National
Texas Statewide
By experience level in Texas
Postings by experience level
Postings by metro
Wage Trajectory for this career in All Texas
How earnings have moved year-over-year for this career, in nominal dollars. p10 = bottom 10% of earners (roughly the entry-level floor). Median (p50) = the middle. p90 = top 10% (roughly the senior ceiling). Source: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (OEWS).
Real Wage Trajectory for this career in All Texas (inflation-adjusted)
The same wage history converted to constant dollars using BLS CPI-U US City Average. If the median line is flat or sloping down, real take-home buying power for this career has not kept up with inflation — even if nominal pay went up. The right-most year is the reference year; earlier years are inflated forward to that year's purchasing power.
Where this career concentrates in Texas
Top metros ranked by Location Quotient — how concentrated this career is in each metro relative to the Texas average. Robust to sampling bias because it's a ratio of ratios.
| Metro | Postings (this career) | LQ | All postings (metro) |
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Location Quotient (LQ) = (career’s share of postings in this metro) ÷ (career’s share of postings statewide). LQ > 1.0 = concentrated here vs TX average. A metro must have at least 5 postings to appear here; metros with fewer than 20 are flagged as low sample. Based on a sample of TX postings; coverage is ~5–15% of the active market — read these as direction, not absolute volume.
Top employers per metro
For each top metro by LQ above, the most active employers posting for this career. Click a metro to expand. Sorted by posting count; most-recently-seen breaks ties.