{"id":233946,"date":"2025-09-17T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233946\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:51:13","slug":"dallas-fort-worth-ranks-no-1-in-attracting-workforce-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233946\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth ranks No. 1 in attracting workforce talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS \u2014 The Dallas-Fort Worth area is booming.<\/p>\n

DFW was named the best large metro area for attracting workforce talent, according to a Lightcast data survey. The global labor market data firm created its annual Talent Attraction Scoreboard<\/a>, pulling information from 2024.<\/p>\n

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(Credit: Lightcast)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a huge deal that the Dallas-Fort Worth area is just crushing it when it comes to attracting workforce talent,\u201d said Glenn Hamer, who is the CEO of the Texas Association of Business.<\/p>\n

He says that in the past three years, North Texas has been a magnet for technology companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly impressive job of attracting tech workers. In the last three years alone, the area has attracted about 50,000 new tech workers. And these are the people that bring great vibrancy and wealth and creativity,\u201d said Hamer.<\/p>\n

According to Cole Napper, Lightcast\u2019s vice president of research who worked on the data, Austin is No. 2.<\/p>\n

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(Credit: Lightcast)<\/p>\n

The \u201ccompetitive effect\u201d makes the Austin area unique in attracting labor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAustin, actually, other than the competitive effect score, has higher rankings on every other score, but it\u2019s just because Dallas ranked it was number one overall. The competitive effect score was just so high it tugged all the other ratings up with it. Otherwise, Austin likely would have been number one,\u201d explained Napper.<\/p>\n

North Texas also scored high in Lightcast\u2019s other categories, including overall job growth and high-earning job growth.<\/p>\n

With major companies relocating their headquarters to the DFW region, Hamer says that\u2019s most likely why the area scored high.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoldman Sachs has major operations. Charles Schwab, J.P. Morgan Chase, Scotiabank just opened up a big operation. Bank of America, you name the financial institution, and they\u2019re coming to Dallas. We\u2019re also the state that\u2019s probably most advanced right now when it comes to crypto.\u00a0So you add all of this up, the energy and finance is all in Texas. And the center of that is the Dallas-Fort Worth area,\u201d explained Hamer.<\/p>\n

According to Lightcast, North Texas was not the only metro to perform well; Houston was sixth and Killeen-Temple was sixteenth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is an overall trend just shows for large metro areas that really the Sunbelt in the Mountain West. And then if you if you look at the bottom-scoring large metro areas, the worst-scoring one is Los Angeles, followed by New York, followed by Chicago, followed by San Francisco. So the areas that already historically have kind of pulled people from a job standpoint,\u201d said Napper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 The Dallas-Fort Worth area is booming. DFW was named the best large metro area for attracting…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,59713,7362,64,5281,1596,7371,123658,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-233946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-business","10":"tag-app-nested-news","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-ctv","13":"tag-dallas","14":"tag-fort-worth","15":"tag-marcine-graham","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115219968238270503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233946","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=233946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}