Business Analyst Salary in Texas 2026,
$101,400 Median | BLS Data by City

Texas management analysts, the BLS category covering business analysts, earn a median $101,400 a year, $48.75 an hour, per OEWS May 2025, with the middle half between $78,440 and $131,210 and a full range of $62,730 to $168,420. That is level with the $101,860 national median — and Texas takes no state income tax out of it, so the take-home comparison favours Texas.

Odessa at $122,080, then Beaumont-Port Arthur at $113,070, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos at $106,600, Midland at $104,260 and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington at $102,860. Two Permian Basin and Gulf Coast industrial metros leading Austin and Dallas is the standout feature of the Texas table.

No. Texas licenses nobody in this occupation and no state board regulates it. Employers screen on the International Institute of Business Analysis credentials — the ECBA for entrants and the CBAP for experienced practitioners — on Six Sigma belts for process work, on SQL and analytics tooling, and on sector experience. In Texas, sector matters unusually much: energy analytics and healthcare payer analytics are largely separate labour markets.

Because oilfield and petrochemical operations generate high-value analytical work and there are few analysts in those metros to do it. Production optimisation, supply chain and capital project analysis in the Permian Basin and along the Gulf Coast industrial corridor are benchmarked against energy-industry pay rather than against general corporate analyst rates, and Odessa's $122,080 reflects that in a housing market far below Austin's or Dallas's.

Several thousand dollars a year at the median of $101,400 relative to a graduated-rate state, and considerably more toward the $168,420 ninetieth percentile. The honest counterweight is property tax: Texas funds itself with some of the highest effective property tax rates in the country, so a homeowner's total state and local burden is less favourable than the income comparison alone suggests.

Because its analyst employment is light relative to its economy and heavily weighted toward operational rather than strategic work. A location quotient of 0.63 across about 50,990 management analysts says Texas uses fewer of them per worker than the country does — much of the equivalent work here sits under engineering, operations and IT titles instead. The state's high-value analyst pockets, in energy and petrochemicals, are real but small relative to the whole.

SOC 13-1111 is a close match rather than an exact one and it spans two very different markets. External management consultants and internal business analysts sit in the same row, and the $168,420 ninetieth percentile is largely consulting. Texas employers also use the business analyst title for jobs BLS would file under computer systems analysts or operations research analysts, so check the systems analyst comparison if your work is technical.

It makes part of this market cyclical in a way corporate analyst work is not. Permian Basin and Gulf Coast analyst hiring follows commodity prices and capital budgets, so the Odessa figure of $122,080 and the Beaumont-Port Arthur figure of $113,070 are strong-cycle numbers with real downside in a weak one. Analysts in Texas healthcare, banking and logistics trade a lower ceiling for far more stability, which is a genuine choice this state forces in a way most do not.