{"id":218897,"date":"2025-09-11T19:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218897\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:05:12","slug":"technology-workers-are-boosting-d-fws-talent-pool-cbre-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218897\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology workers are boosting D-FW\u2019s talent pool, CBRE says"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Texas\u2019 technology and data center boom<\/a> are a boon for the area\u2019s workforce, according to an annual report released this week<\/a> by CBRE. <\/p>\n

In 2021, Dallas-Fort Worth counted a technology workforce of around 180,000. By 2024, that number had jumped to over 227,000 \u2014 the 2nd biggest increase of any American metro region, the commercial real estate giant\u2019s data found. <\/p>\n

D-FW\u2019s recent addition of nearly 50,000 tech workers, a 26% increase, ranked second only to a jump in New York\u2019s overall numbers, CBRE said. That positioned North Texas as 5th among American metro areas for its overall number of tech workers. <\/p>\n

The San Francisco Bay Area topped the list, with more than 400,000 tech workers, followed by Greater New York, Washington, D.C. and L.A.-Orange County. <\/p>\n

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Computer support, database and systems workers made up the largest share of D-FW\u2019s tech workforce, CBRE\u2019s data showed, followed closely by software developers and programmers.<\/p>\n

The report also counted nearly 20,000 AI-specific tech workers in North Texas, a number that ranked 7th among U.S. metro areas. In addition, the sector\u2019s growth has sparked a rebound in high-tech office leasing, CBRE noted.<\/p>\n

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by CBRE, last year D-FW\u2019s tech workforce had an average annual wage of around $125,000 \u2014 more than a third higher than the region\u2019s overall average. <\/p>\n

D-FW\u2019s surge in tech workers comes as North Texas continues to experience surging economic and population growth<\/a>, with the region on track to hit 10 million residents within 10 years, which would make it the country\u2019s third largest metro area. <\/p>\n

Tech companies, including artificial intelligence startup Cognigy<\/a>, and high-tech audio company Qsic<\/a>, have recently joined major financial players like Goldman Sachs and TIAA in a wave of corporate expansions and relocations to the region, while longtime local stalwarts, like AT&T, also employ large numbers of tech workers. <\/p>\n

North Texas has also seen a boom in data centers: Last month, Wistron, a large Taiwanese electronics company, announced<\/a> it had selected two sites in Denton County for new AI chip facilities that together will span more than 1 million feet. The project involves investments of more than $750 million, and will create more than 800 jobs. <\/p>\n

In a statement, Jackie Lai, a Wistron executive, called Fort Worth the company\u2019s \u201coptimal choice,\u201d citing its \u201ctalent availability, robust logistics infrastructure and a vibrant industrial ecosystem.\u201d <\/p>\n

Local and state political and business leaders have been eager to highlight the growth: At a ceremonial bill signing in Fort Worth in June, Gov. Greg Abbott referred to the city<\/a> as \u201ca linchpin\u201d that \u201cattracts so many of these Fortune 500 companies to this region.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas\u2019 technology and data center boom are a boon for the area\u2019s workforce, according to an annual…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[96602,5229,64,1596,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7987],"class_list":{"0":"post-218897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-ai-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fortworth","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-workforce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115187228609193701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}