Austin punches in with one of the highest hiring rates in the U.S.
More full-time jobs are on the way.
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Many employers in Austin are going full speed ahead when it comes to hiring full-time employees.
New survey data from staffing firm Robert Half shows 51 percent of companies in Austin plan to add new full-time jobs in the second half of 2021, compared with 61 percent in the Dallas area and 50 percent in Houston.
Among the 28 U.S. cities in the Robert Half survey, those with the highest percentage of employers who expect to staff up this year are San Diego (62 percent), Dallas (61 percent), and Atlanta and Los Angeles (58 percent each). Nationally, the number was 51 percent. Managers at companies with at least 20 employees participated in the survey.