Texas still leads way for U.S. job growth

Houston Business Journal

Everything is bigger in Texas — including job growth.

That's the conclusion of an analysis of nonfarm jobs between June 2006 and June 2011 from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by On Numbers, a feature of The Business Journals, a division of American City Business Journals.

On Numbers reported that Texas added 537,500 nonfarm jobs during that period, nearly 10 times as many as second-place finisher Louisiana, which added 55,900 jobs. North Dakota topped the country in percentage gain at 11,84 percent.

Texas had a 5.35 percent overall increase in jobs during that period.