Consulting firms in Dallas: 2,266 offices and most of the Metroplex's consulting jobs

This report is for people job hunting in Dallas consulting, companies hiring a consultant and vendors selling to consulting firms. The figures are for Dallas County, which holds most of the city of Dallas, including downtown and Uptown; we compare it with the whole Dallas-Fort Worth metro where that helps.

Dallas County at a glance

From County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023, NAICS 5416, Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services:

The wider Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro had 6,609 consulting offices and 55,025 employees in 2023, so Dallas County holds 34% of the offices and 62% of the jobs (our calculation). Outside the county the metro is mostly small practices: 3,756 of its other 4,343 offices have one to four employees, while Dallas County has 50 of the metro's 77 offices with 100 or more. The Census Bureau counts establishments with employees on payroll; firms are not counted as such, and self-employed consultants are outside the count.

What Dallas consultants do

General management offices paid $150,700 per employee (our calculation from CBP payroll). The IT row matters if you're job hunting or selling: technology consulting is as large an employer here as strategy and management work. The NAICS code for consulting explains where each kind of firm is classed.

The national firms' Dallas offices

From each firm's own office page, checked 30 October 2026:

Booz Allen's locations page lists Texas offices only in Houston and San Antonio. Accenture's 10-K doesn't name Dallas among its major offices, and its office locator didn't show addresses to our check. For McKinsey, EY and PwC, check their sites yourself: McKinsey's didn't respond to us, EY's office pages carry no addresses in the page itself and PwC's blocks automated requests. For firm-wide revenue rankings see the largest consulting firms; for the Big Four's consulting arms, the Big Four accounting firms.

No listed consulting firm is headquartered here. The only Dallas company SEC EDGAR files under management consulting, GEX Management, filed Form 15 in December 2024 to end its SEC reporting. Its last 10-K, for 2023, showed $2.1 million of revenue.

Federal consulting here is mostly one contractor

In fiscal 2025, contracts coded NAICS 5416 and performed in Dallas County carried $158.4 million of federal obligations (USAspending.gov), up 4% on fiscal 2024. Logistics consulting (541614) was $138.0 million of it, and Lockheed Martin received $135.0 million. Defense agencies obligated $139.8 million of the total, led by the Missile Defense Agency ($74.7 million) and the Army ($62.6 million). The next largest recipients were ICF ($5.0 million), Bowman Engineering & Consulting ($3.7 million, for the Federal Transit Administration) and Deloitte Financial Advisory Services ($3.1 million). For most Dallas consultancies, federal work is a footnote.

Jobs and pay

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 18,010 management analysts (occupation 13-1111) in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro in May 2025, with a median wage of $102,860 and a mean of $112,240; the 10th percentile earned $64,300 and the 90th $170,590. The metro's concentration of the occupation is 0.77 times the national rate, so management analyst jobs are relatively scarcer here than in Washington or Boston. Computer systems analysts are the opposite: 20,000 jobs, 1.48 times the national rate.

How to choose a Dallas consultant

1. Decide between management and IT consulting. In Dallas they're equal-sized markets; many firms that call themselves consultancies are really systems integrators.
2. Check the entity. The Texas Comptroller's franchise tax account status search looks up a business by name, taxpayer number, EIN or Secretary of State file number.
3. For state-funded work, check whether the firm is on the Comptroller's Centralized Master Bidders List, which Texas agencies use to find vendors, along with its HUB directory.
4. Ask who does the work. At the 50 large offices, the partner who sells may not staff the project; ask for named team members in the proposal.
5. Agree scope, fee and ownership of deliverables in writing, and take two references from clients your size.

The Dallas Regional Chamber, the city's Office of Economic Development and ACG Dallas/Fort Worth, listed in ACG's chapter directory, are good places to meet local firm leaders.

Selling to Dallas consultancies

General guidance: the 2,057 offices under 20 staff buy through an owner; the 159 with 20 to 99 through a managing director or operations lead; the 50 of 100 or more are mostly branches whose national office sets vendor lists.

Illustrative example. The company, prices and results are fictional.

Coverwise (coverwise.example) is an insurance agency that places professional liability cover for consultancies, earning about $900 in commission on a typical $6,000 premium. It targets the 443 Dallas County offices with five to 49 staff, where the owner buys insurance personally. Winning 40 a year is 40 x $900 = $36,000 in first-year commission, renewing annually. The opener asks whether the firm's contracts require a certificate of professional liability cover, since many corporate clients do. Splitting the 443 into independent firms and branches, and finding each owner, is what Bebop's account research handles.

Next step: compare Dallas with consulting firms in Atlanta, or see the county's wider business base in companies in Dallas.