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These 6 Dallas companies rank among best U.S. employers for young professionals

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Six businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth are clocking in among the country’s best employers for millennials, according to a new report.

The Best Workplaces for Millennials list is published annually by Fortune magazine and compiled by Great Place to Work, a company that focuses on improving workplace culture.

Looking at the six North Texas employers, Plano-based real estate company Granite Properties ranks highest among small, midsized, and large employers. It appears at No. 22 on the list for small and midsized employers.

This marks Granite’s first time on the list.

The Best Workplaces for Millennials awards are based on an analysis of survey responses from more than 5.3 million workers in the United States. In the survey, 99 percent of employees cited Granite as a great place to work.

“When I started at Granite right out of college, I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have landed this job — I still feel the same seven years later,” Laurel Materka Patel, senior manager of community experience and customer insights at Granite, says in a company news release. “One of my favorite things about working here is the genuine care shown to everyone, and dedication to training and growing employees’ skills. Because I have been able to grow my leadership and communication skills, I have been able to grow in the company as well.”

Joining Granite on the list of the top small and midsized employers for millennials are:

Addison-based Credera, No. 36
Dallas-based Pariveda Solutions, No. 76
Dallas-based Embark, No. 97

On the list of large employers, Dallas-based PrimeLending lands at No. 29 and Ryan LLC at No. 35.

Here’s how employers in Texas’ other major metro areas fared.

Houston

Large employers:

Houston-based David Weekly Homes, No. 12
Houston-based Camden Property Trust, No. 32
Houston-based Hilcorp, No. 37
Houston-based Cornerstone Home Lending, No. 38
Houston-based Transwestern, No. 65
Spring-based Hewlett Packard Enterprise, No. 95

Small and midsized employers:

Houston-based Continued, No. 33
Houston-based Venterra Realty, No. 49
Houston-based Republic State Mortgage, No. 90
Houston-based E.A.G. Services, No. 91

Austin

Large employers:

Round Rock-based Dell Technologies, No. 75

Small and midsized employers:

Austin-based OJO Labs, No. 51
Austin-based SailPoint, No. 60
Austin-based Sedera Health, No. 69
Austin-based The Zebra, No. 86

San Antonio

Large employers:

San Antonio-based NuStar Energy, No. 91
San Antonio-based USAA, No. 98

“The Best Workplaces for Millennials treat their employees like people, not just employees,” says Michael Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work. “These companies foster caring and respect for one another, at every level of the organization. The result is millennial employees who say they look forward to coming to work and — as our research says — are 50 times more likely to stay a long time.”

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Texas ranks among 10 best states to find a job, says new report

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You have a better chance of landing a job in Texas than in most other states.

If you’re hunting for a job in Texas amid a tough employment market, you stand a better chance of landing it here than you might in other states.

A new ranking by personal finance website WalletHub of the best states for jobs puts Texas at No. 7. The Lone Star State lands at No. 2 in the economic environment category and No. 18 in the job market category.

Massachusetts tops the list, and West Virginia appears at the bottom.

To determine the most attractive states for employment, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 34 key indicators of economic health and job market strength. Ranking factors included employment growth, median annual income, and average commute time.

“Living in one of the best states for jobs can provide stable conditions for the long term, helping you ride out the fluctuations that the economy will experience in the future,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo says.

In September, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas led the U.S. in job creation with the addition of 195,600 jobs over the past 12 months.

While Abbott proclaimed Texas is “America’s jobs leader,” the state’s level of job creation has recently slowed. In June, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas noted that the state’s year-to-date job growth rate had dipped to 1.8 percent, and that even slower job growth was expected in the second half of this year.

The August unemployment rate in Texas stood at 4.1 percent, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. Throughout 2025, the monthly rate in Texas has been either four percent or 4.1 percent.

By comparison, the U.S. unemployment rate in August was 4.3 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2025, the monthly rate for the U.S. has ranged from 4 percent to 4.3 percent.

Here’s a rundown of the August unemployment rates in Texas’ four biggest metro areas:

Austin — 3.9 percent
Dallas-Fort Worth — 4.4 percent
San Antonio — 4.4 percent
Houston — 5 percent

Unemployment rates have remained steady this year despite layoffs and hiring freezes driven by economic uncertainty. However, the number of U.S. workers who’ve been without a job for at least 27 weeks has risen by 385,000 this year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August. That month, long-term unemployed workers accounted for about one-fourth of all unemployed workers.

An August survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed a record-low 44.9 percent of Americans were confident about finding a job if they lost their current one.

This story originally was published on our sister site, InnovationMap.

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