Customs brokerage and dispatch
Expeditors lists a Brokerage Agent, Imports position with a Tuesday-through-Saturday schedule described as a weekend shift. Salary is not disclosed. The Laredo role involves processing shipments on time, handling import customs brokerage and serving customers. The posting seeks detail-oriented candidates fluent in English and Spanish and describes Expeditors as a Fortune 500 logistics company operating in more than 250 locations worldwide.
Bravo Lines LLC's Dispatcher opening pays $14.00 to $18.00 an hour for approximately 40 hours a week, Thursday through Monday. The position is in Laredo's 78045 ZIP code, with the work arrangement listed as hybrid or in person. No experience is needed, according to the posting. Responsibilities include arranging freight pickups and deliveries, communicating with drivers and clients, and working with DAT, Truckstop, GPS and chat tools.
Warehouse roles and listed pay
EXL Service offers $10.50 to $29.04 an hour for an in-person Warehouse Assistant position in Laredo, listed under the title Auxiliar de Bodega. The full-time job combines receiving goods and organizing pallets with labeling freight, preparing shipments bound for Mexico, and assisting with inventory counts and checks.
BENIFIT LOGISTICA SA DE CV lists an in-person Forklift Operator opening in the 78045 ZIP code at $15.00 an hour. The full-time second shift runs approximately 4 p.m. to midnight, totaling about 40 hours a week. Work includes unloading, moving and inspecting materials, including food products, while maintaining a safe, orderly warehouse. The posting describes a fit for applicants with one to two or more years of forklift or warehouse experience, good physical condition and a valid driver's license.
An older wage benchmark comes from CBRE's February 2023 Laredo industrial-market brief, which put average hourly pay for a non-supervisory warehouse worker at $15.17. The brief counted 4,261 people in the metro area's warehouse and distribution labor force and projected 11% growth over the following decade. Those figures describe the market at that time and a forecast, not current employment or wages.
Trade volumes behind the logistics market
Port Laredo's March 2, 2026, release put its 2025 international trade value at $353.94 billion, up $14.94 billion, or 4.4%, from 2024. More than 97% of that trade was directly tied to Mexico. The port said the results reinforced its standing as the Western Hemisphere's leading land port and among the three largest U.S. ports of entry by trade value.
The release separately reported $481.8 billion in 2025 trade for the Laredo Customs District. That broader measure covers all ports under federal jurisdiction in the region, rather than Port Laredo alone.
Truck traffic figures also show the region's role in cross-border freight. According to Orange Commercial Credit's reporting of Texas Department of Transportation data, the Laredo region handled more than six out of every ten commercial trucks crossing the Texas-Mexico border in 2024. TxDOT's regional fact sheet counted 3,358,578 northbound commercial vehicle crossings that year.
Construction and employment show a mixed picture
Laredo approved $1.73 billion in warehouse and industrial construction spanning 21.7 million square feet from 2022 through 2025, according to the Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development at TAMIU. The center described the total as nearly triple that of the preceding seven years. Approvals in 2025 alone reached $731.5 million and 7.55 million square feet, roughly nine times the 2015-2021 average.
The pace subsequently slowed. Through September 2026, permitting was 87% below the full-year 2025 total, and four months had no industrial permits, the center reported.
Employment also shifted. TAMIU's analysis of Texas Workforce Commission and BLS data found that Webb County added 449 warehousing and storage jobs in the first quarter of 2025, following the 2024 permitting peak. Employment in that sector then declined 5.2% over the next four quarters. Truck transportation lost 695 jobs in the first quarter of 2025.
For the broader metro economy, Orange Commercial Credit cited preliminary, not seasonally adjusted BLS figures showing 115,200 nonfarm payroll jobs in February 2026. Of those, 35,800 were in trade, transportation and utilities.
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