State overview · FL · Census CBP 2023
Florida Industry Benchmarks
Employment, establishments, and payroll for 1116 industries in Florida. Drill into any industry for a Florida-specific view, then cross-reference the national page for margins.
- 10.0M
- Workers
- 646K
- Establishments
- 1116
- Industries tracked
Data updated August 2026
The verdict · Florida
Florida employs 9,988,508 workers across 1116 tracked industries, led by Professional Employer Organizations (1,684,968 workers) among the 521 detailed industries with published employment.
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services anchors Florida; top-three cumulative share is 48%. Margins stay on national industry pages.
Florida sector employment mix
Share of private-sector employment by NAICS-2 sector (Census CBP 2023). Tile area = workers.
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services is the clear anchor in Florida (24% of 9,988,508 private-sector workers (about the 94th percentile of states by employment)), but sibling sectors still take meaningful shares. Read the treemap as an anchor-plus-breadth economy rather than a one-sector state.
#1 · NAICS 56
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
2,373,309 · 24%
#2 · NAICS 62
Health Care and Social Assistance
1,286,330 · 13%
#3 · NAICS 44
Retail Trade
1,146,619 · 11%
Anchor economy · Herfindahl 0.114 (open) · top-three 48% of Florida private payroll.
Profit margins are national (IRS SOI); open any industry row below, then the matching national industry page for profitability.
Census CBP firm roll
County Business Patterns FL ANCHORED · CBP
#3/51 · 9,988,508 workers · 645,575 firms
- EMP 9,988,508
- EST 645,575
- RANK #3/51
- PCT 94th pct
- LEAD Administrative and S…
- SHARE 24% lead
- BAND anchored
- DENS 15.5 /firm
- BOOK 1116 NAICS
- PHOTO New York
Nearest employment-scale peer: New York (8,766,053 workers)
According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, Florida ranks #3 of 51 states and territories by total private-sector employment (level-2 sector totals, the same non-double-counted aggregate shown above). Margins stay on national industry pages (IRS SOI). Read with this state → · Lead 6-digit industry →
FL in the employment-scale neighbourhood
Top Industries by Employment
Not ranked: 394 of 915 detailed industries have no published employment figure. Census County Business Patterns applies 2% or more noise to those cells, and PlainBizBench publishes only low-noise figures rather than estimating. Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (21,144), Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners (3,956), Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores (3,850) and 33 more report more establishments than Professional Employer Organizations, so Professional Employer Organizations leads only among the 521 detailed industries with published employment. How we handle withheld data.
Scale peers for Florida's anchor economy
Nearest other states by Census CBP level-2 private employment (9,988,508 in Florida), excluding FL.
Source: Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023 · FL
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