The largest employers in Florida, region by region

This page is for job seekers, site selectors, journalists and B2B sellers who want to know who employs the most people in Florida. FloridaCommerce, the state's labor market information office, doesn't publish a statewide ranking of named employers that we could find, so this page uses the regional economic development organizations' published lists, each cited and dated, plus federal counts for the state as a whole.

Central Florida: the Orlando region

The Orlando Economic Partnership's Top 50 Employers list (updated October 2026) covers Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. It excludes local government, nonprofit and retail operations, and its figures are estimates from direct company contact, PitchBook, the Orlando Business Journal, the Orlando Sentinel and the Partnership's own research.

Westgate Resorts, the Orlando VA Medical Center, Rosen Hotels & Resorts, Siemens Energy and Marriott Vacations Worldwide complete the top 15.

Northeast Florida: the Jacksonville region

JAXUSA Partnership's Northeast Florida Large Employers list (February 2026) covers Baker, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam and St. Johns counties and includes public employers. JAXUSA notes its figures are estimates drawn from multiple sources.

The Winn-Dixie Company also reports 5,700. For Jacksonville in more detail, see the largest employers in Jacksonville.

Southeast Florida: Palm Beach County

The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County publishes a 2025-2026 Top Employers profile in two parts, goods-producing and service-providing. Combined, the ten largest are:

The largest goods producers are Florida Crystals and Pratt & Whitney, at about 2,000 each. The BDB says updates came from employers in January 2025 and flags figures it couldn't update, which covers every entry, so treat these as older estimates than the Orlando and Jacksonville lists. Miami-Dade, Broward and Tampa Bay have no current published list from their economic development organizations that we could open.

Florida's workforce by type of employer

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) counts every job covered by unemployment insurance. Florida's 2025 annual averages:

Government's 11.1% share is lower than California's 14.7% or Minnesota's 13.4% in the same data. Among private industries, health care and social assistance employs the most, 1,374,246, followed by retail (1,149,476) and accommodation and food services (1,059,594). In the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, only 643 of Florida's 645,575 private establishments had 1,000 or more employees in 2023.

The biggest Florida-based companies by workforce

Companies report headcount for the whole company, not by state. From their latest 10-Ks:

Publix's 10-K calls it the largest employee-owned company in the US. Carrier and FIS report that most of their employees work outside the US; Publix and Darden don't split headcount by state. For Florida businesses by revenue rather than headcount, see businesses in Florida.

Using these lists to sell

The regional lists show where large workforces sit, which matters for anything bought per employee or per site: benefits, on-site health services, uniforms, food service, training, facilities work. Hospitality employers dominate Orlando, health systems and the military dominate Jacksonville, and public employers lead in Palm Beach, and each buys differently. Public bodies use formal bids; health systems often buy through group purchasing contracts; theme parks and hotels have centralized procurement with seasonal timing.

Illustrative example. The company, rates and results are fictional; the employer figures are from the Orlando list.

Sunrail Health (sunrailhealth.example) runs on-site flu shot clinics and wants Central Florida employers outside health care.

• From the Orlando list it takes the 15 largest non-health employers with 2,400 or more workers, from Walt Disney World Resort down to Full Sail University, leaving out the VA medical center, a federal facility that buys through government channels.
• Their combined workforce is about 181,200.
• At an assumed 30% uptake and $35 a shot, that's roughly $1.9 million a season if it won them all, so even three or four large accounts would fill its calendar.
• It times outreach for July and August, before clinics are booked for the fall.

Bebop can find the benefits and wellness leads at each of the 15 and draft the first message.

Subject: Flu clinics at [Company]'s [site] this fall

Hi [first name],

With [headcount] people across [sites], getting flu shots done on site usually saves more lost workdays than it costs, if the clinics fit around shifts.

We run on-site clinics for Central Florida employers, billing insurance directly and scheduling across all three shifts. Could we hold September dates for [site] while you decide?

[Your name], Sunrail Health

Next step: see how large organizations split their buying in enterprise account research.