HR Jobs in Austin, TX

Observed government pay for Austin HR specialists was $75,860 at the median and $80,840 at the mean in the latest annual wage estimates, with a 25th-to-75th range of $60,300 to $96,380 and a 90th percentile of $127,240. That is very close to the national HR specialist median of $75,940 and mean of $81,990. Proxy signals run somewhat higher because they mix titles and seniority: local posted salary ranges centered on about $80k to $107k, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics put the Texas mean offered salary on new HR/recruiting/people ops openings at ~$96,586 in September 2026 (n=3,026).

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 55 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $60,000 at the 25th percentile, $75,000 at the median and $100,000 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Austin is a workable but selective market for Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations job seekers. Metro unemployment was 3.9% in August 2026, total nonfarm employment was up 1.1574% year over year, and Professional and Business Services employment was up 1.9587% year over year, which supports ongoing hiring without signaling an easy market. The occupation-specific direction is better than the broader backdrop: Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Texas HR/recruiting/people ops postings up 12.9% year over year in September 2026 and employment up 1.2% year over year, while Texas all-occupation employment was essentially flat. The catch is selectivity: about 55% of sampled local postings were mid-level, about 60% were on-site, and only about 10% were remote.

Best positioned: The best odds right now belong to mid-career candidates who can show sourcing, full-cycle recruiting, ATS fluency, data analysis, stakeholder management, and either employee-relations or business-partner depth, especially if they are open to on-site or hybrid work.

Main caution: Do not assume Austin is a remote-first or certification-gated market: about 60% of sampled roles were on-site, certifications were explicitly required in less than 5% of postings, and the typical active posting had been open around 25 days.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 114 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. TQL: 6 open roles
2. Aalo: 2 open roles
3. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.: 2 open roles
4. Apptronik: 2 open roles
5. BuildASign: 2 open roles
6. Coinbase: 2 open roles
7. GlobalFoundries inc.: 2 open roles
8. Humanaut Health: 2 open roles
9. Join Parachute, LLC: 2 open roles
10. Pigment: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Austin: 103
• Round Rock: 3
• Hutto: 2
• Manor: 1
• San Mateo: 1
• San Jose: 1
• Leander: 1
• Austin, Texas, United States; Palo Alto: 1

Work arrangement

on-site 66 (58%), hybrid 43 (38%), remote 4 (4%)

Where the demand is

Local opportunity is spread across a long tail of employers rather than dominated by one buyer. Over the last 90 days, the sample shows more than 150 postings across more than 125 companies, hiring is fragmented across employers, and the most-active industries were software development at about 25%, financial services at about 15%, insurance at about 15%, hospitals and health care at about 15%, and staffing and recruiting at about 10%. That mix matters because Austin is not just hiring pure recruiters. Among the consistently active named employers were Tesla, Texas Oncology, Us Oncology Inc, Security Industry Specialists, InterMed, Kestra Holdings, Wrench Group, and Iron Mountain Incorporated. Recent live examples ranged from AMD's Senior HR Advisor role and Contoro's Talent Acquisition Specialist role to a City of Austin employee-relations opening and a nonprofit HR-and-talent leadership role at Breakthrough Central Texas. In practice, the most durable opportunities look like three lanes: tech and advanced-industry recruiting with analytics, regulated-industry HR in healthcare and finance, and operational HR work tied to employee relations, retention, and compliance. That is good news for candidates who can show both process execution and business judgment.

• Tech and advanced-industry recruiting / HR advisory (high): Software development makes up about 25% of the local sample, and recent Austin postings from AMD and Contoro point to demand for recruiters and HR advisors who can support technical, engineering, operations, and corporate hiring while using data well.
• Healthcare, finance, and insurance HR (high): Financial services, insurance, and hospitals and health care each account for about 15% of the local sample, and named employers include Texas Oncology, Us Oncology Inc, and Kestra Holdings.
• Public-sector and employee-relations work (moderate): The City of Austin ran a Fair Chance Hiring and Resource Fair on September 30 and separately listed a Senior Human Resources Advisor role focused on employee relations, showing continued demand for compliance, ER, and community-facing HR work.
• Staffing and recruiting firms (moderate): Staffing and recruiting accounted for about 10% of the local sample, which makes agency or embedded recruiting a plausible bridge for candidates who need faster entry or recent production metrics.

Where to focus: If you want the shortest path to interviews, focus first on mid-level HR advisor, employee-relations, and recruiter roles in software, healthcare, finance, and insurance employers that expect on-site or hybrid work and value analytics plus stakeholder management.

Roles worth searching next

• HRIS / People Systems Analyst: Austin employers already value data analysis and ATS fluency, and national HR platforms such as Workday, SAP Joule, and Microsoft Copilot are pushing HR work toward systems-heavy execution.
• Business Operations / Program Manager: AMD's Austin opening explicitly combined HR consulting, program management, and data analytics, which makes ops-heavy professionals credible crossovers.
• Compliance Analyst: Employee-relations demand is present locally, and AI-related disclosure and bias-audit expectations are increasing, which raises the value of policy, documentation, and risk controls.
• Instructional Designer / Corporate Trainer: If your background is in L&D, moving into training design can be cleaner than competing for narrower people-ops openings, especially as 60-70% of L&D work is now described as automatable by AI.

What postings ask for

• Sourcing + LinkedIn Recruiter (table_stakes | immediate): In the local sample, sourcing and LinkedIn Recruiter were each present in about 20% of postings, making outbound talent finding a core screening factor for recruiting candidates. Who: Recruiters, TA specialists, and entry-level candidates who need a fast way to prove production value.
• Full-cycle recruiting + interviewing (table_stakes | immediate): Austin postings frequently call for full-cycle recruiting, interviewing, and stakeholder management, which means employers want end-to-end process owners rather than resume pass-throughs. Who: Any recruiter, coordinator, or career switcher trying to move beyond admin support.
• ATS fluency (table_stakes | immediate): Applicant tracking systems show up directly in local skill demand, and ATS competence is the operational backbone behind compliance, scheduling, reporting, and candidate movement. Who: Entry-level candidates, career switchers, and recruiters who want to look more execution-ready.
• HR analytics and data interpretation (premium | immediate): Data analysis appears in about 15% of the local sample, AMD's Austin HR role explicitly blended HR consulting with program management and data analytics, and national HR guidance identifies HR Analytics & Data Interpretation as a top technical skill in 2026. Who: Mid-career candidates, HR advisors, people ops staff, and anyone targeting systems-heavy or strategic roles.
• Employee relations and compliance judgment (differentiator | near-term): The City of Austin's recent local opening was specifically for a Senior Human Resources Advisor in employee relations, and current HR certification guidance emphasizes policy implementation, compliance, and employee-relations capability. Who: HR generalists, office managers moving into HR, and recruiters who want to broaden into advisory work.
• SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP (differentiator | near-term): Local postings most often required no certification, with none appearing above less than 5% of the sample, but SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP are still highlighted nationally as valuable signals for compliance, HR technology, and employee-relations capability. Who: Career switchers and mid-career HR candidates who need a credibility signal, not candidates looking for a substitute for experience.

Questions about this market

What do Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles pay in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX?

Observed government pay for Austin HR specialists was $75,860 at the median and $80,840 at the mean in the latest annual wage estimates, with a 25th-to-75th range of $60,300 to $96,380 and a 90th percentile of $127,240. That is very close to the national HR specialist median of $75,940 and mean of $81,990. Proxy signals run somewhat higher because they mix titles and seniority: local posted salary ranges centered on about $80k to $107k, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics put the Texas mean offered salary on new HR/recruiting/people ops openings at ~$96,586 in September 2026 (n=3,026). Austin pay is solid rather than exceptional. The metro's average wage across all occupations was $35.85 per hour in May 2025, $2.31 per hour above the U.S. mean, so HR compensation here can be attractive but not dramatically advantaged against a relatively expensive local market.

Where is demand for Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX concentrated?

Local opportunity is spread across a long tail of employers rather than dominated by one buyer. Over the last 90 days, the sample shows more than 150 postings across more than 125 companies, hiring is fragmented across employers, and the most-active industries were software development at about 25%, financial services at about 15%, insurance at about 15%, hospitals and health care at about 15%, and staffing and recruiting at about 10%. That mix matters because Austin is not just hiring pure recruiters. Among the consistently active named employers were Tesla, Texas Oncology, Us Oncology Inc, Security Industry Specialists, InterMed, Kestra Holdings, Wrench Group, and Iron Mountain Incorporated. Recent live examples ranged from AMD's Senior HR Advisor role and Contoro's Talent Acquisition Specialist role to a City of Austin employee-relations opening and a nonprofit HR-and-talent leadership role at Breakthrough Central Texas. In practice, the most durable opportunities look like three lanes: tech and advanced-industry recruiting with analytics, regulated-industry HR in healthcare and finance, and operational HR work tied to employee relations, retention, and compliance. That is good news for candidates who can show both process execution and business judgment.

Which employers are hiring the most Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations talent in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX?

Recent postings show the most activity from Tesla (5 postings), Texas Oncology (5 postings), Us Oncology Inc (5 postings), Security Industry Specialists, Inc. (5 postings), InterMed (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 30% hybrid, with 60% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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