The Healthcare Industry in Jacksonville: Jobs, Pay and the Hospitals Behind Them

Health care is the biggest private industry group in Jacksonville and Duval County, with 90,473 private health care and social assistance jobs at 4,032 establishments in 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS QCEW).

Those jobs paid an average of $77,716 a year, slightly above the $75,204 average for all private work in the consolidated city and county. The industry added 2,531 jobs in 2025, a 2.9 percent rise over 2024 (BLS QCEW).

Pay varies widely inside the industry. Doctors' offices averaged $121,667, the highest of the groups in the table below, while nursing and residential care averaged $47,461 and social assistance $36,834. Ambulatory health care services employ more people than Duval County's private hospitals, 41,319 against 31,312 (BLS QCEW).

Source for every row: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Duval County, 2025 annual averages.

Yes: the Jacksonville metro's education and health services jobs were 3.3 percent above a year earlier in August 2026, while total nonfarm jobs rose only 0.1 percent, according to preliminary BLS figures (BLS Economy at a Glance).

The BLS series counted 139.8 thousand education and health services jobs in the metro in August 2026, out of 803.8 thousand nonfarm jobs. Its 12 month change for the group ran from 1.5 percent in March 2026 to 5.3 percent in June before settling at 3.3 percent in August (BLS). The series combines private education with health care, so it is a broader measure than the Duval County health care count above.

Hospitals led the 2025 health care gains. Private hospital jobs in Duval County rose by 1,226, or 4.1 percent, and ambulatory care added 826 jobs, a 2.0 percent rise (BLS QCEW). The City of Jacksonville's FY2024 financial report says medical employers account for 35 percent of the jobs at its largest employers, the biggest of five segments that make up more than 92 percent of that group (City of Jacksonville FY2024 ACFR).

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration lists 19 hospital entries in Duval County in its Hospital ER Services report dated July 1, 2026 (AHCA hospital ER services report).

The list names Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside and Southside, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Jacksonville and South, Wolfson Children's Hospital, HCA Florida Memorial Hospital, Mayo Clinic, UF Health Jacksonville and UF Health North. It also names two Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital campuses, Bartram and University, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Jacksonville, North Florida Rehabilitation Hospital, PAM Health Specialty Hospital of Jacksonville, Reunion Rehabilitation Hospital Jacksonville, UF Health Rehabilitation Hospital North, River Point Behavioral Health and Wekiva Springs Center (AHCA).

Several Jacksonville campuses share one state license. AHCA shows license 4448 for Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Baptist Medical Center South and Wolfson Children's Hospital, license 4063 for UF Health Jacksonville and UF Health North, and license 4443 for both Brooks campuses (AHCA). A count of hospital licenses in Duval County therefore comes out lower than the 19 listed entries.

Most Jacksonville hospitals are private non profits: of the 10 Duval County hospitals in the federal CMS hospital file, six are listed as voluntary non profit private, three as proprietary and one as a Department of Defense hospital (CMS Hospital General Information).

The non profit listings are Shands Jacksonville at 655 W 8th St, Ascension St Vincent's Riverside at 1 Shircliff Way, Baptist Health Medical Center Jacksonville at 800 Prudential Dr, Baptist Medical Center Beaches at 1350 13th Ave S in Jacksonville Beach, Mayo Clinic at 4500 San Pablo Rd and Ascension St Vincent's Southside at 4201 Belfort Rd. The proprietary listings are HCA Florida Memorial Hospital at 3625 University Blvd S and two hospitals CMS classifies as psychiatric, River Point Behavioral Health at 6300 Beach Blvd and Wekiva Springs at 3947 Salisbury Rd (CMS).

The tenth, NH Jacksonville at 2080 Child St, is listed by CMS as an acute care Department of Defense hospital. CMS reports emergency services at eight of the 10; the two psychiatric hospitals report none (CMS). This page reports ownership and services only and does not use the ratings that CMS also publishes.

Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside says it was founded in 1916, and Mayo Clinic says its Florida campus had 35 physicians and 145 support staff on October 13, 1986 (Ascension St. Vincent; Mayo Clinic).

Ascension says the hospital was founded by the Daughters of Charity, and describes it as a full service 584 bed hospital that added a new patient tower in 1968 and was acquired by the Ascension St. Vincent's Health System in 1996 (Ascension St. Vincent). That is the hospital's own description.

Mayo Clinic's own account says the campus now employs nearly 12,000 staff members across 50 specialty areas (Mayo Clinic News Network). Those are the clinic's figures, published on October 13, 2026.

In its FY2024 financial report, the city describes Jacksonville as having more than 20 high profile health care facilities and as home to one of three Mayo Clinics and one of seven Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center partnerships (City of Jacksonville ACFR).

The official counts differ because each agency measures something else, and this page gives each figure with its source rather than choosing one (CMS; AHCA; ACFR; Mayo Clinic).

CMS lists 10 Duval County hospitals and AHCA lists 19 entries. The CMS file includes NH Jacksonville, which is not on the state list, and it uses the name Shands Jacksonville for 655 W 8th St, a name the AHCA report does not use; AHCA lists UF Health Jacksonville under license 4063. None of the rehabilitation hospitals on the AHCA list appears in the CMS file fetched for this page (CMS; AHCA).

Staff counts also differ by source and date. The city's FY2024 report lists 8,450 Mayo Clinic employees (ACFR), while Mayo Clinic's October 2026 release says the campus employs nearly 12,000 staff members (Mayo Clinic). The BLS hospital count of 31,312 private jobs in 2025 covers every private hospital establishment in Duval County, not a single employer (BLS QCEW).

Last verified: October 18, 2026, by pulling the 2025 Duval QCEW file, the BLS metro snapshot, the AHCA July 2026 hospital report and the CMS hospital file for Duval County, and by rereading the city's FY2024 financial report and the Mayo Clinic and Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside pages.