Recruiting services in Texas
A full permanent search for an employer hiring anywhere in Texas, run end to end on your behalf and priced per search rather than as a percentage of salary. Across all six tiers the published range is $6,240 to $54,340, set by the seniority of the role and not by what it pays.
Searches typically fill in 23 to 35 days and run 30 to 50% below what a contingency recruiter charges for the same hire, with a 45 day replacement guarantee at 50% off. Local market data is published for 17 Texas cities across 9 metro wage areas.
Which Texas cities have data?
Sorted by population. Every one of these carries a real wage figure and a real residence-side earnings figure. Nothing here is a placeholder.
| City | Population | Wages attributed to |
|---|---|---|
| Hiring in Houston | 2,397,315 | Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX |
| Hiring in San Antonio | 1,548,422 | San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX |
| Hiring in Dallas | 1,329,491 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in Fort Worth | 1,028,117 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in Austin | 1,002,632 | Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX |
| Hiring in El Paso | 683,012 | El Paso, TX |
| Hiring in Arlington | 402,134 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in Corpus Christi | 317,247 | Corpus Christi, TX |
| Hiring in Plano | 293,028 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in Lubbock | 273,071 | Lubbock, TX |
| Hiring in Laredo | 269,515 | Laredo, TX |
| Hiring in Irving | 257,076 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in Garland | 249,625 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in Frisco | 236,955 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in McKinney | 236,001 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in Grand Prairie | 209,434 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
| Hiring in Amarillo | 205,130 | Amarillo, TX |
Population: US Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates. Wage areas are BLS OEWS metropolitan areas, which is why several cities can share one.
What does the Texas data actually show?
Across the 17 cities here, 10,938,205 people live in the places we publish data for. The largest is Houston at 2,397,315, the smallest Amarillo at 205,130.
Resident earnings vary more inside Texas than most people expect. In management, Frisco residents report a median of $139,813 against $61,390 in Laredo. Same state, same occupation group.
Why do several cities share one wage figure?
Because BLS publishes wages by metropolitan area, not by city. In Texas that means 17 cities map onto 9 wage areas. A page that stopped there would say the same thing about every city in the metro, so each one also carries Census figures for that specific place: how many residents work in each occupation group and what they earn. Those do differ city to city, often by a wide margin.
What would your search cost in Texas?
The fee is set by the seniority of the role, not by location and not by salary. Eight questions gives you the range. Tier I to VI runs $6,240 to $54,340.