State labor market
Florida labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Florida. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Florida hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Florida.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Florida workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
General and operations managers
236,290estimated employmentCustomer service representatives
228,000estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Florida figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$84,190/yr Florida median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$130,980/yr Florida median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$57,250/yr Florida median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$79,250/yr Florida median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$58,930/yr Florida median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$142,620/yr Florida median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Florida occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Florida workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Barbers$49,410/yr state median · 1,240 workers+29.3%vs. U.S. $38,210/yr
- Opticians, dispensing$58,850/yr state median · 5,080 workers+24.5%vs. U.S. $47,260/yr
- Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates$186,040/yr state median · 1,380 workers+20.8%vs. U.S. $153,990/yr
- Dental laboratory technicians$59,790/yr state median · 2,330 workers+20.5%vs. U.S. $49,610/yr
- Ship engineers$130,480/yr state median · 1,260 workers+19.1%vs. U.S. $109,530/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Fashion designers$43,020/yr state median · 1,100 workers-46.9%vs. U.S. $80,960/yr
- Emergency medicine physicians$204,990/yr state median · 2,060 workers-38.9%vs. U.S. $335,550/yr
- Natural sciences managers$112,220/yr state median · 4,370 workers-32.9%vs. U.S. $167,220/yr
- Biological science teachers, postsecondary$57,140/yr state median · 2,020 workers-32.5%vs. U.S. $84,620/yr
- Court reporters and simultaneous captioners$49,240/yr state median · 1,110 workers-32.0%vs. U.S. $72,420/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Florida
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Florida. Links marked “Florida report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Florida report is available.
726 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.