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Dallas suburb plugs in as No. 1 U.S. city for remote workers in 2025

Frisco is a hotspot for remote workers.

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The Dallas suburb of Frisco is a hotspot for remote workers in 2025: A new report anoints the techy city as the best city in America for remote workers.

Frisco earned a near-perfect score of 99 out of 100 in the study, conducted by digital business card company Wave Connect.

Two other Dallas suburbs also made the study’s top 10: Allen (No. 3, with a score of 78) and Plano (No. 6, with a score of 57).

Wave Connect analyzed the 40 U.S. cities with the largest remote worker populations and evaluated them on eight factors, including share of remote workers, median pay, cost of living index, yearly rent, dining costs, internet cost and speed, coworking availability, and safety index.

“The data reveals that smaller cities can actually offer better value to remote workers,” says George El-Hage, founder and CEO of Wave Connect. “For example, remote professionals in Frisco and Allen can combine six-figure salaries with housing costs under $25,000 annually, creating wealth-building opportunities that may not exist in expensive coastal markets.”

“If the shift to remote work continues,” El-Hage adds, “we might see traditional tech hubs losing residents to these more affordable destinations that offer both digital infrastructure and financial freedom.”

In the study, Frisco, Allen and Plano benefited from the lowest cost-of-living index (92.7) in the top 10. Allen boasted the lowest average yearly rent in the top 10 — $18,000.

On the internet front, Frisco had the second-highest download speed (271 megabytes per second). And in the money department, Frisco came in third place for median annual pay for remote workers ($111,000), and it tied for the lowest average yearly spending on restaurant meals ($2,300).

The top 10 cities for remote workers, according to the Wave Connect study, are:

No. 1 Frisco, Texas
No. 2 Cary, North Carolina
No. 3 Allen, Texas
No. 4 Bellevue, Washington
No. 5 Arlington, Virginia
No. 6 Plano, Texas
No. 7 Naperville, Illinois
No. 8 Highlands Ranch, Colorado
No. 9 Alexandria, Virginia
No. 10 Santa Clara, California

Frisco is on a roll when it comes to work-from-home accolades. A recent SmartAsset survey crowned Frisco as the U.S. city with the biggest share of remote workers. The study found over 40,000 Frisco residents work from home, which is more than a third of all of the city's workers aged 16 and older (117,193 total workers).

And data published recently by the U.S. Census Bureau shows remote workers in the Dallas metro area earn nearly 51 percent more than their commuting counterparts.

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Jobs report

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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