The local work report
Work in Florida
39,982
Live openings our index could see in Florida.
Counted exactly, against live rows, . Not a projection and not an annual average. A posting counts if its source still listed it at the most recent crawl.
7,186
18.0% of openings in Florida
read as entry level, on our reading of the posting text.
That label is ours, not the employer’s. We read it from the posting, and it is not perfect: in a 3,000-row sample, 0.6% of postings we call entry level carry a senior-sounding word in the title, and some of those are fine (“Shift Supervisor Trainee” really is a trainee role). Treat it as a good guide, not a guarantee.
The other 32,796 openings in Florida read as expecting experience a student does not have yet, which is a fact about the route rather than about them.
Which fields are hiring
Ranked by live openings. Shares are of the 37,808 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
7,00718.5%
Retail
3,7139.8%
Skilled trades
3,6809.7%
Food service
2,6957.1%
Customer service
2,6477.0%
Sales and marketing
2,5426.7%
Transportation and driving
2,4106.4%
Technology and software
2,3556.2%
Manufacturing
1,8855.0%
Office and administration
1,5414.1%
Warehouse and logistics
1,4954.0%
Childcare and education
1,4243.8%
Finance and accounting
1,3673.6%
Hospitality
1,0832.9%
Business and operations
6401.7%
Beauty and wellness
4781.3%
General labor
2360.6%
Creative and media
1740.5%
Security and safety
1640.4%
Engineering
1310.3%
Science and research
520.1%
Community and social services
460.1%
Agriculture and natural resources
400.1%
Legal
30.0%
A further 2,174 live openings in Florida carry no field in our index. They are real postings we have not classified, and they are excluded from the shares above rather than distributed into them.
Where the work is
The 12 places in Florida with the most live openings. For most students the honest answer to “can I do this without moving?” is on this list.
Place names are exactly as the employer wrote them and are not normalized, so one city can appear under several labels and a big metro can be split across them. Treat a row as a floor for that place, not as its total.
Miami
2,450
Tampa
2,313
Orlando
2,215
Jacksonville
1,859
Tallahassee
816
Melbourne
807
Fort Lauderdale
646
Fort Myers
570
Pensacola
489
West Palm Beach
464
Gainesville
462
Sarasota
422
How much experience these postings ask for
Our reading of the posting text, not a field the employer filled in. Every live posting gets one of these three, so unlike the field breakdown above there is no “did not state” residue here — which is itself the sign that the label is inferred rather than reported.
- 7,186
- Reads as entry level
- 24,604
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 8,192
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Florida at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Florida labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Florida is thinner than our coverage of most states. We hold 19 indexed openings per 10,000 residents here, against a median of 47 across the states we can read. That is a fact about our index, not about Florida’s economy, and the two are easy to confuse. Across all 52 the ratio between the best and worst covered is more than twentyfold, so comparing one state’s total against another’s tells you more about us than about them.
It is a floor, not a total. Nationally the index held 1,537,993 live US openings, of which 1,308,341 carry a state and 229,652 do not. Those unplaced postings are real work that we cannot put on a map, so every state figure on this page understates what exists.
Some of these postings will already be filled. Employers do not reliably take listings down, so a live posting means “still listed by its source”, not “confirmed open”. Anybody who tells a student otherwise is selling them something.