Florida · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in Florida

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Florida, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 658,900 people in Florida across roughly 86,867 establishments, with average annual pay of $73,700.

Employment in Construction in Florida grew 16.4% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 658,900. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Florida are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 658,900Employment, 2025
  • 86,867Establishments
  • $73,700Avg. annual pay
  • 6.7%Share of Florida jobs
  • 1.23Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in Florida, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 499,400 to 658,900.0200K400K600K800K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 499,400; 2005 585,400; 2006 639,900; 2007 598,400; 2008 517,100; 2009 398,700; 2010 352,000; 2011 339,100; 2012 346,900; 2013 369,900; 2014 401,100; 2015 435,600; 2016 478,200; 2017 507,800; 2018 545,100; 2019 567,500; 2020 565,900; 2021 580,100; 2022 604,600; 2023 631,700; 2024 651,700; 2025 658,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025658,88886,867$73,701 1.1%pub.
2024651,74084,981$70,280 3.2%pub.
2023631,73982,775$66,921 4.5%pub.
2022604,57080,943$63,008 4.2%pub.
2021580,06278,512$59,054 2.5%est. · 1.00
2020565,85076,348$55,922 0.3%est. · 1.00
2019567,46974,752$52,906 4.1%est. · 1.00
2018545,13170,862$51,308 7.4%est. · 1.00
2017507,78167,424$49,283 6.2%est. · 1.00
2016478,20164,616$47,382 9.8%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings134,25020.4%1.13pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction89,91713.7%1.04pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors434,72166.0%1.31pub.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Construction in Florida, quarterly, at full depth

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