400+ Hospitality & Food Service Jobs in Austin, TX

Observed local wage data is modest: Austin food-prep and serving jobs averaged $16.50 per hour in May 2025, and the broader food-prep-and-serving family paid about $33,280 at the median, $27,110 at the 25th percentile, and $46,960 at the 90th percentile in 2025. Directional posting data matches the hourly floor better than the salaried headline, with hourly postings centered on about $16 to $18 / hour.

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Advertised pay

Across the 239 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $31,200 at the 25th percentile, $36,400 at the median and $41,600 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 17, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Austin is still a real hiring market for this category, especially on the lodging and food-service side. The metro had 156 thousand leisure and hospitality jobs in August 2026, up 2.4294% year-over-year, and the food-prep-and-serving slice alone represented 9.3% of Austin employment in the latest occupational estimate. But it is not an easy market across the board: metro unemployment was 3.9% in August 2026, up year-over-year, while Texas-wide hospitality occupation data points to softer online demand, with employment down 1.5% and active postings down 7.3% year-over-year. If you are flexible on schedule, role type, and on-site work, this is a workable market; if you are targeting higher-paid chef or management tracks only, expect more competition.

Best positioned: Candidates with open schedule availability, on-site flexibility, and proof of food safety, cash handling, sanitation, cleaning, or inventory skills have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not assume the higher posted salary bands reflect typical frontline pay; government wage data for the broader local food-service workforce is far lower than the management-heavy posted-salary sample.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 418 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. White Lodging: 33 open roles
2. Compass Group: 24 open roles
3. Tc4 Limited: 17 open roles
4. P. Terry's: 13 open roles
5. Hyatt Hotels Corporation: 11 open roles
6. TouchPoint Support Services: 11 open roles
7. Spectrum Retirement Communities, LLC.: 8 open roles
8. Brookdale Senior Living: 7 open roles
9. Maggiano's, Inc.: 7 open roles
10. Bunkhouse: 6 open roles

Where the openings are

• Austin: 340
• Round Rock: 24
• Cedar Park: 18
• Pflugerville: 7
• Kyle: 6
• Lakeway: 5
• Bee Cave: 5
• Hutto: 4

Work arrangement

on-site 382 (99%), hybrid 3 (1%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is spread across many employers rather than locked inside one chain. In the recent Austin sample, there were more than 750 postings across more than 250 companies, and hiring was fragmented across employers. The most active employers included Compass Group, White Lodging, Starbucks Corp., Hyatt Indian Wells, and Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Within the posting mix, hospitality accounted for about 50% of roles and restaurants about 15%, with smaller pockets in retail, healthcare, and food and beverage services. That mix points to a practical search strategy: hotels and lodging, contract foodservice, and chain operators are the most repeatable sources of openings. The roles are mostly frontline and onsite—about 75% entry-level and about 95% or more on-site—so seekers who can work shifts and start quickly have a wider lane than candidates waiting for office-style schedules. Austin-specific proxy data also suggests housekeeping is a stronger volume niche than cooks in the local hospitality mix, with housekeepers at 7.5% of OysterLink's Austin sample versus cooks at 4.3%. The weakest documented lane in this bundle is travel-office work. If you want travel-agent style roles, treat them as a niche search rather than the default Austin opportunity pool and do not use restaurant demand as a stand-in for that submarket.

• Hotels and lodging operations (high): Hotels and lodging are a core lane, supported by White Lodging and Hyatt-branded hiring in the recent sample, plus the September opening of 1 Hotel Austin.
• Contract foodservice and institutional dining (high): Compass Group was one of the most active employers, and the posting mix includes healthcare and retail settings where foodservice runs inside larger institutions.
• Restaurants, coffee, and fast casual (moderate): Restaurants account for about 15% of the local posting mix, Starbucks Corp. is a frequent poster, and Mendocino Farms and Urban Egg added expansion signals in September and October.
• Travel-office and agency-style roles (limited): This report has much thinner direct evidence for travel-office roles than for foodservice and lodging, so treat them as a narrower niche with fewer visible openings.

Where to focus: Prioritize hotels, contract foodservice, and chain operators first, then layer in independents and newly opened venues as a second wave.

Roles worth searching next

• Retail sales associate or shift lead: Cash handling, customer service, and inventory management transfer directly from Austin hospitality openings.
• Facilities or janitorial lead: Cleaning and sanitation are already common asks, and housekeeping is one of the clearer volume niches in Austin hospitality data.
• Customer service representative or member services associate: Hospitality applicants often already have the phone, scheduling, problem-solving, and guest-escalation habits these roles need.
• Administrative receptionist or office coordinator: Front-desk hospitality habits transfer well to visitor handling, phones, calendars, and in-person support.

What postings ask for

• Food handler certification (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most commonly required named certification in the local posting sample and helps clear screening for kitchen and service roles. Who: Entry-level food-service candidates, career switchers, and anyone applying to kitchens or cafeterias.
• Food safety (table_stakes | immediate): Food safety appears in about 15% of local postings and pairs with sanitation as a repeat screening signal. Who: Cooks, prep staff, shift leads, cafeteria staff, and manager-track candidates.
• Sanitation and cleaning (table_stakes | immediate): Sanitation and cleaning appear repeatedly in local postings and map directly to back-of-house and housekeeping demand. Who: Housekeeping applicants, kitchen candidates, and career switchers from janitorial or facilities work.
• Cash handling and POS discipline (table_stakes | immediate): Cash handling shows up in about 15% of postings and is one of the easiest service skills to transfer from retail or hospitality. Who: Baristas, front-desk staff, counter-service workers, and retail switchers.
• Inventory management (differentiator | near-term): Inventory management is the most-cited hard skill in the local sample at about 20%, which makes it a strong move-up signal for leads and managers. Who: Shift leads, restaurant managers, catering leads, and anyone trying to move from hourly to supervisory work.
• Customer service and guest recovery (differentiator | near-term): Customer service shows up in about 10% of local postings, and restaurant operators nationally say guest experience and team culture are major hiring priorities. Who: Front-desk, host, server, barista, and career-switcher candidates.

Questions about this market

What do Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles pay in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX?

Observed local wage data is modest: Austin food-prep and serving jobs averaged $16.50 per hour in May 2025, and the broader food-prep-and-serving family paid about $33,280 at the median, $27,110 at the 25th percentile, and $46,960 at the 90th percentile in 2025. Directional posting data matches the hourly floor better than the salaried headline, with hourly postings centered on about $16 to $18 / hour. For most frontline jobs, this is a moderate-pay market with broad access, not a high-pay market. Austin's all-occupation mean hourly pay was $35.85, so hospitality wages sit far below the metro average even though the citywide labor market is relatively strong.

Where is demand for Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX concentrated?

Opportunity is spread across many employers rather than locked inside one chain. In the recent Austin sample, there were more than 750 postings across more than 250 companies, and hiring was fragmented across employers. The most active employers included Compass Group, White Lodging, Starbucks Corp., Hyatt Indian Wells, and Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Within the posting mix, hospitality accounted for about 50% of roles and restaurants about 15%, with smaller pockets in retail, healthcare, and food and beverage services. That mix points to a practical search strategy: hotels and lodging, contract foodservice, and chain operators are the most repeatable sources of openings. The roles are mostly frontline and onsite—about 75% entry-level and about 95% or more on-site—so seekers who can work shifts and start quickly have a wider lane than candidates waiting for office-style schedules. Austin-specific proxy data also suggests housekeeping is a stronger volume niche than cooks in the local hospitality mix, with housekeepers at 7.5% of OysterLink's Austin sample versus cooks at 4.3%. The weakest documented lane in this bundle is travel-office work. If you want travel-agent style roles, treat them as a niche search rather than the default Austin opportunity pool and do not use restaurant demand as a stand-in for that submarket.

Which employers are hiring the most Hospitality, Food Service & Travel talent in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX?

Recent postings show the most activity from Compass Group (40 postings), White Lodging (40 postings), Starbucks Corp. (40 postings), Hyatt Indian Wells (20 postings), Hyatt Hotels Corporation (20 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

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