Tarrant County · Texas
Fort Worth, TX jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Fort Worth, TX earn a median of $43,229 a year, 3% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 4.9% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 19.9% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $43,229#41 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 4.9%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 68.5%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 466,872Civilian employed, age 16+
What Fort Worth does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance19.9%
- Professional, scientific & management11.4%
- Retail trade11.2%
- Manufacturing10.4%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities9.3%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food8.6%
- Construction8.5%
- Finance, insurance & real estate7.8%
- Other services, except public administration5.3%
- Public administration3%
- Wholesale trade2.4%
- Information1.3%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.9%
Related data for Fort Worth
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.