Hiring/Texas/Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Practitioners hiring difficulty in Houston, TX
The public market difficulty score for Nurse Practitioners in Houston, TX is 6.0 out of 10, in the elevated band. This occupation's share of jobs in Houston is close to its share of U.S. jobs. The location quotient is 0.87 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Texas, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.1%, near the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 36.8 days, near the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median of $134,560 a year is within 3 percent of both the Texas median of $131,670 and the U.S. median of $132,300 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 5,970 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types): the extract holds 5,896 organization records with a practice ZIP in this metro (retrieved September 28, 2026). That count is the same for every role in Houston. Houston is number 7 of 80 metros on this site by healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.
Average of three ranked components, shown to one decimal. How this score is built
Key numbers
JOLTS on this page is a statewide, all-industry figure. It is the same number for every role in Texas. It is a December 2025 print, matched to the U.S. total-nonfarm print for that month.
Annual pay
Metro employment 5,970 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Location quotient 0.87. Metro area: Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX.
| Percentile | Metro | TX | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25th | $116,500 | $113,840 | $117,990 |
| Median | $134,560 | $131,670 | $132,300 |
| 75th | $143,680 | $147,660 | $156,700 |
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Unpublished cells stay blank here.
Score components
| Component | Input | Score | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local supply | 0.87 | 6.7 | Location quotient, BLS OEWS, May 2025. Lower quotient, higher component. Ranked among the 1,953 published pages. |
| Statewide openings rate | 4.1% | 6.3 | Total nonfarm, all industries, Texas, December 2025. Higher rate, higher component. Ranked among 51 states and DC. |
| Statewide hiring pace | 36.8 days | 5.0 | Openings ÷ hires × 365.25 ÷ 12, from 608 thousand openings and 503 thousand hires. Higher days, higher component. |
Shown score 6.0 is the average, rounded half up to one decimal. Full method
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