Pecos County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs
Pecos County economy
4.9%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.7% the month before
5,624
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
14,983
people in Pecos County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$67,689
median household income
Source: Census ACS
28%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Pecos County layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Pecos County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Employers hiring most in Pecos County
Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.
- Bechtel5 open roles
- Anduril3 open roles
- Faith Technologies3 open roles
- Anduril Industries2 open roles
- Everforth, Cybercoders1 open role
- Hill & Wilkinson General Contractors1 open role
- Texas Farm Bureau1 open role
- World Acceptance1 open role
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Pecos County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Permian Basin Workforce Development Board
Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Howard, Loving, Martin, Midland, Pecos, Reeves, Terrell, Upton, Ward, Winkler
Workforce Solutions Permian Basin - Fort Stockton
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Cities in Pecos County
- Fort Stockton17 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Texas’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.