Houston is expected to add 71,000 jobs in 2019, according to the Greater Houston Partnership’s (GHP) 2019 Houston Employment Forecast.
“We are much stronger than we have been in several years,” Patrick Jankowski, GHP’s senior vice president of research, told KUHF's Houston Matters. “We’re firing on all cylinders — all the factors that support growth in Houston are aligning in Houston’s favor, so we’re actually better off now than we have been in several years.”
GHP expects Houston to end 2019 with a total of 3.2 million jobs, which represents a net increase of more than 600,000 jobs over the past 10 years.