400+ Social Services & Counseling Jobs in Austin, TX

Government data puts Austin's broad community and social service pay at $29.85 per hour in May 2025, with the local occupation-family median at $58,910, the 25th percentile at $47,640, and the 75th percentile at $74,470. Recent posted pay in the local job sample centers on about $60k to $72k, or about $24 to $29 / hour for hourly roles, which should be read as directional rather than a marketwide median.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 206 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $60,125 at the 25th percentile, $82,500 at the median and $94,442 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 16, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Austin is still a workable market for this category, but it is not an easy one. Metro unemployment was 3.9% in August 2026 and total nonfarm payrolls were up 1.2% year over year, while Austin education and health services jobs were up only 0.6497% year over year, which points to steady-but-not-fast local demand. At the same time, Texas-wide direction signals for this occupation family show employment up 0.9% year over year but active postings down 5.9% year over year, so openings exist, but job seekers should expect more competition per opening than last year.

Best positioned: The best odds right now are for mid-career candidates who can show case management, crisis intervention, documentation, and care coordination in healthcare or community-behavioral-health settings, especially if they also bring LCSW or LCDC where relevant.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming Austin's broad job growth automatically means easy hiring here; this field is smaller than average locally at 1.2% of metro employment, and remote roles are rare.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 412 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. PAM Health: 25 open roles
2. St. David's: 24 open roles
3. PARS Therapy: 19 open roles
4. TexPTS: 12 open roles
5. Results PT: 10 open roles
6. Upstream Rehabilitation Inc.: 10 open roles
7. ATI Physical Therapy, Inc.: 9 open roles
8. Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation: 9 open roles
9. Bswrehab: 9 open roles
10. Confluent Health LLC: 9 open roles

Where the openings are

• Austin: 251
• Round Rock: 56
• Kyle: 17
• Pflugerville: 16
• Cedar Park: 16
• Leander: 10
• Lakeway: 10
• Travis County: 4

Work arrangement

on-site 362 (90%), hybrid 22 (6%), remote 16 (4%)

Where the demand is

Most visible opportunity is tied to healthcare-adjacent employers rather than pure nonprofit generalist work. In the local job sample, the most-active industries were healthcare (about 40%) and hospitals and health care (about 40%), and named employers included Hospice Austin, Central Health, Community Medical Services, Uthealthcomm, University of Texas, Compassus, Bbtrails, and Austin. That lines up with the skill mix, which emphasizes case management, documentation, care coordination, discharge planning, clinical documentation, and patient assessment. A second pocket of demand is community behavioral health and crisis-response work. Austin expanded support for Integral Care with an initial 12-month agreement of up to $13,946,970 starting October 1, and Central Health approved $54 million in new mental-health investments, including $16 million for a future Mental Health Crisis Center. Those are not direct job counts, but they are practical signals that outreach, crisis, housing-support, and care-navigation teams should stay relevant. Pure remote or senior leadership searches are thinner. Only about 5% of local postings are remote, and senior roles account for about 5% with lead+ under 5%.

• Hospital, hospice, and health-system case management (high): Most visible local hiring clusters around healthcare, hospitals, hospice, and care-transition work, where employers want documentation, case management, discharge planning, and patient assessment.
• Behavioral health and crisis-response programs (high): Recent city and Central Health funding points toward ongoing need in behavioral health, crisis response, homelessness services, and outreach, even if exact headcount is not published.
• General nonprofit and community program roles (moderate): These roles exist, but hiring is fragmented across many employers and often pays closer to the middle of the local range than the top end.

Where to focus: If you want the shortest path to interviews, target healthcare-linked case management and behavioral-health service teams before broader nonprofit generalist roles.

Roles worth searching next

• Patient services coordinator: It uses many of the same intake, documentation, scheduling, and handoff habits as community-facing casework.
• Intake or admissions coordinator: This is a practical pivot for people who are strong in triage, client screening, referral routing, and documentation.
• Eligibility specialist or public benefits specialist: It keeps you close to client advocacy and resource navigation without requiring the same counseling or fieldwork profile.
• Quality or compliance coordinator in health or nonprofit settings: Strong documenters and casework professionals can pivot into audit, standards, and workflow-improvement work.

What postings ask for

• Case management (table_stakes | immediate): It appears in about 55% of local postings, making it the clearest baseline screen in this market. Who: Everyone in this category, especially entry-level and career-switching applicants.
• Documentation and clinical documentation (table_stakes | immediate): Documentation shows up in about 25% of postings and clinical documentation in about 20%, which means employers expect you to handle regulated records, not just client interaction. Who: Applicants coming from nonprofit, education, or customer-service backgrounds who need to prove readiness for formal casework.
• Crisis intervention (differentiator | immediate): It appears in about 25% of local postings and matches the current Austin funding emphasis on mental health, crisis response, and homelessness services. Who: Candidates targeting behavioral health, outreach, shelter, or emergency-adjacent roles.
• Care coordination and discharge planning (differentiator | immediate): Care coordination appears in about 25% of postings and discharge planning in about 20%, which is a strong clue that healthcare-linked employers are driving much of the local demand. Who: Mid-career job seekers aiming at hospitals, hospice, home health, or complex-needs populations.
• LCSW (premium | near-term): LCSW shows up among the most common local requirements, so it can separate you for higher-acuity or more autonomous roles even though not every job in this category needs it. Who: Experienced social workers moving toward hospital or advanced community roles.
• LCDC (differentiator | near-term): LCDC appears in local requirements and is especially useful where substance-use treatment overlaps with behavioral-health hiring. Who: Candidates targeting recovery, addiction, or dual-diagnosis settings.

Questions about this market

What do Social Services, Counseling & Community roles pay in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX?

Government data puts Austin's broad community and social service pay at $29.85 per hour in May 2025, with the local occupation-family median at $58,910, the 25th percentile at $47,640, and the 75th percentile at $74,470. Recent posted pay in the local job sample centers on about $60k to $72k, or about $24 to $29 / hour for hourly roles, which should be read as directional rather than a marketwide median. That is workable but not premium Austin pay: the category mean of $29.85 per hour sits below the metro average across all occupations of $35.85, while Austin's cost-of-living index is about 103.

Where is demand for Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX concentrated?

Most visible opportunity is tied to healthcare-adjacent employers rather than pure nonprofit generalist work. In the local job sample, the most-active industries were healthcare (about 40%) and hospitals and health care (about 40%), and named employers included Hospice Austin, Central Health, Community Medical Services, Uthealthcomm, University of Texas, Compassus, Bbtrails, and Austin. That lines up with the skill mix, which emphasizes case management, documentation, care coordination, discharge planning, clinical documentation, and patient assessment. A second pocket of demand is community behavioral health and crisis-response work. Austin expanded support for Integral Care with an initial 12-month agreement of up to $13,946,970 starting October 1, and Central Health approved $54 million in new mental-health investments, including $16 million for a future Mental Health Crisis Center. Those are not direct job counts, but they are practical signals that outreach, crisis, housing-support, and care-navigation teams should stay relevant. Pure remote or senior leadership searches are thinner. Only about 5% of local postings are remote, and senior roles account for about 5% with lead+ under 5%.

Which employers are hiring the most Social Services, Counseling & Community talent in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX?

Recent postings show the most activity from Bbtrails (5 postings), Hospice Austin (5 postings), Central Health (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 85% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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