250+ HR & Recruiting Jobs in Dallas, TX

Official local wage data is clear but lagged: DFW HR specialists had a $70,700 median, $75,220 mean, $51,820 at the 25th percentile, and $92,490 at the 75th percentile in May 2025. Recent posted pay is directionally a bit higher in the middle, with DFW HR, recruiting, and people ops postings centered on about $75k to $98k and a broader 25th-75th band of about $60k to $126k.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 115 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $57,500 at the 25th percentile, $70,720 at the median and $103,250 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

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

DFW is a competitive but still workable market for HR, recruiting, and people ops over the next 3-6 months. Metro unemployment was 4.4% in August 2026, while total nonfarm employment grew about 1.0% year over year and professional and business services grew 3.1429%, giving people-team hiring a decent base but not an easy one. Occupation-specific signals are better than the broad market: Texas HR, recruiting, and people ops postings were up 12.9% year over year in September 2026 and statewide employment in the occupation family was up 1.2%. Local opportunity is real, but most openings skew mid-career and on-site, so candidates with proven execution win faster than generalists hoping to learn on the job.

Best positioned: The best odds right now are for candidates with 3-7 years in full-cycle recruiting, HRBP or employee-relations work, or Workday/HRIS-backed operations who can show ATS, sourcing, and data-analysis results.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming six-figure HR manager pay reflects the whole market; DFW HR specialists had a $70,700 median while HR managers had a $140,890 median, which shows how sharply pay depends on seniority and scope.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 298 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Gartner: 6 open roles
2. Rosendin Electric, Inc.: 6 open roles
3. Dallas Fort Worth International: 4 open roles
4. Aston Carter, Inc.: 3 open roles
5. DSV Group: 3 open roles
6. PTR Global: 3 open roles
7. Robert Half: 3 open roles
8. Stevens Transport: 3 open roles
9. The Kraft Group: 3 open roles
10. TQL: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Dallas: 113
• Fort Worth: 30
• Plano: 26
• Irving: 26
• Arlington: 8
• Frisco: 7
• Richardson: 7
• Coppell: 7

Work arrangement

on-site 206 (71%), hybrid 61 (21%), remote 22 (8%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is spread across many employers rather than concentrated in one dominant buyer. We observed more than 400 postings across more than 300 companies in the last 90 days, and the employer mix in the sample was fragmented rather than concentrated. The busiest pockets were insurance at about 30% of postings, construction at about 15%, staffing and recruiting at about 15%, hospitals and health care at about 10%, and financial services at about 10%. That mix matters. Insurance, staffing, and multi-site service employers tend to need steady recruiting and employee-relations coverage; construction and healthcare often need operational HR that can support field or site-based work. About 25% of postings in the sample came from enterprise employers, about 50% of roles were mid-level, and about 60% were on-site, so candidates who can handle process discipline, hiring-manager partnership, and in-market presence have more openings to pursue. Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas also markets recruiting, training, retention, job fairs, and employer partnerships, which gives job seekers another local channel beyond direct application funnels.

• Insurance and risk-management employers (high): This is the largest local posting cluster in the sample and a strong place to target recruiters, coordinators, and HR generalists who can support distributed teams.
• Staffing and recruiting firms (high): These employers are a practical entry point for candidates who can show sourcing speed, candidate communication, and req-volume discipline.
• Construction and field-based employers (moderate): These roles often reward candidates comfortable with on-site work, multi-location coordination, and process follow-through rather than remote-first expectations.
• Hospitals, health care, and financial services (moderate): These segments are meaningful but smaller slices of the local mix, so they are best for candidates with regulated-environment or employee-relations credibility.

Where to focus: Prioritize mid-level recruiting, HR generalist or HRBP, and employee-relations openings inside insurance, staffing, healthcare, and enterprise business-services employers where local demand is broadest and repeat hiring is likeliest.

Roles worth searching next

• Business Operations Coordinator or Analyst: It uses the same process discipline, reporting, scheduling, and stakeholder support that many HR operations roles require.
• Customer Success or Implementation Specialist at an HR-tech, benefits, or staffing vendor: Candidates with HR systems or recruiting workflow experience can sell and support the same tools from the vendor side.
• Compliance Coordinator or Analyst: Employee relations, policy interpretation, documentation, and audit discipline transfer well into compliance work.
• Staffing Sales or Account Manager: Recruiters who already manage reqs, hiring managers, and candidate pipelines often transition well into agency-side client ownership.

What postings ask for

• Applicant tracking systems, sourcing, and full-cycle recruiting (table_stakes | immediate): These are among the most-requested hard skills in local postings, alongside interviewing, so they are baseline screening keywords rather than nice-to-haves. Who: Entry-level applicants, recruiters, and career switchers.
• Excel and data analysis (table_stakes | immediate): Excel and data analysis show up repeatedly in local postings, which matters because many DFW roles blend recruiting or HR support with reporting and operational follow-through. Who: Anyone targeting coordinator, specialist, or people-ops roles.
• Workday and HRIS administration (differentiator | immediate): Local skill signals call out Workday and HRIS management as in demand, making systems fluency one of the clearest ways to separate from generic coordinators. Who: Mid-career applicants and switchers with process or systems backgrounds.
• Employee relations and employment law compliance (differentiator | near-term): Employee relations is a local demand signal, and Texas HR teams also have to navigate AI-discrimination rules, ban-the-box rules, and the restored federal overtime salary threshold. Who: HR generalists, HRBPs, managers, and candidates moving out of operations leadership.
• PHR (differentiator | near-term): PHR is the certification most often required in local postings, though it appears in only about 5% of them, which means it helps more as a differentiator than as a gatekeeper. Who: Early- to mid-career HR candidates who already have hands-on experience and need sharper signaling.
• AI fluency and AI governance in recruiting (premium | immediate): SHRM says 39% of organizations were using AI in HR, recruiting was the most common HR AI use case at 27%, and Texas law prohibits unlawful discriminatory AI use, so employers increasingly want people who can use automation without compliance mistakes. Who: Recruiters, people-ops professionals, and managers who touch screening, selection, or workflow design.

Questions about this market

What do Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles pay in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

Official local wage data is clear but lagged: DFW HR specialists had a $70,700 median, $75,220 mean, $51,820 at the 25th percentile, and $92,490 at the 75th percentile in May 2025. Recent posted pay is directionally a bit higher in the middle, with DFW HR, recruiting, and people ops postings centered on about $75k to $98k and a broader 25th-75th band of about $60k to $126k. That reads as solid mid-market pay, not breakout pay. DFW specialist pay sits below the national HR specialist median of $75,940, so this is a market where title quality, scope, and employer brand matter almost as much as base salary.

Where is demand for Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX concentrated?

Real opportunity is spread across many employers rather than concentrated in one dominant buyer. We observed more than 400 postings across more than 300 companies in the last 90 days, and the employer mix in the sample was fragmented rather than concentrated. The busiest pockets were insurance at about 30% of postings, construction at about 15%, staffing and recruiting at about 15%, hospitals and health care at about 10%, and financial services at about 10%. That mix matters. Insurance, staffing, and multi-site service employers tend to need steady recruiting and employee-relations coverage; construction and healthcare often need operational HR that can support field or site-based work. About 25% of postings in the sample came from enterprise employers, about 50% of roles were mid-level, and about 60% were on-site, so candidates who can handle process discipline, hiring-manager partnership, and in-market presence have more openings to pursue. Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas also markets recruiting, training, retention, job fairs, and employer partnerships, which gives job seekers another local channel beyond direct application funnels.

Which employers are hiring the most Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations talent in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?

Recent postings show the most activity from TQL (10 postings), Gartner (10 postings), Us Oncology Inc (5 postings), Gallagher Bassett (5 postings), American Income Life (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 15% are remote and 30% hybrid, with 60% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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