This article has been updated.
New tourism jobs led the state’s overall employment growth in April as Texas set records for the sixth month in a row, according to new numbers Friday from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).
The San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area’s unemployment rate was 3.3% in April, having fallen 0.2% since March.
Texas as a whole saw employment totals break records for the sixth consecutive month, with total nonfarm employment at nearly 13.3 million in April, marking about 740,000 new jobs filled since last April. Texas’ unemployment rate is 3.7%.
Leisure and hospitality led April’s job gains with around 13,500 jobs added over the month, followed by education and health services.
Zeroing in on the San Antonio region, the leisure and hospitality sector is racing toward what could be a full recovery from the job losses it suffered two years ago. The pandemic devastated the industry, which employs more than 1 in 10 workers…