As the fastest growing Metro area in Texas, Fort Worth has an excellent array of career advancement opportunities in a range of industries. Recruiters will find that having a pool of 70,000 firms and 90,000 physical businesses established in the city, is a sure sign that there is more demand than supply for the workforce.
From ranking carried out in 2015 of 200 cities, Fort Worth has been ranked #38 in the best place for doing business ranking, and as #24 in regards to its comparative job growth rate.
Fort Worth has a decreasing unemployment rate, down to 4.0% in June 2015, from 5.3% in June 2014. The fastest growing industries include financial services, which has grown from 3.8% to 4.4% between January and June 2015, and Leisure and Hospitality which grew from 5.4% to 5.6% in the same period.
Large employers in Fort Worth include American Airlines, which employs 24,700 people, more than any other company in the city. Airline Pilots and Flight Engineers can earn an average of $173,470 per year. The largest employer in the financial sector is Bank of America, with 20,000 employees, where a financial manager can earn in excess of $121,460 per year.
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