Major Employers in St. Petersburg, Florida

Raymond James & Associates is the largest private employer on the City of St. Petersburg's own 2025 list, with 4,800 employees, followed by All Children's Health with 2,800 and Power Design and Jabil Circuit with 1,700 each.

The list is the Principal Employers schedule in the city's 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the audited annual report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025 (City of St. Petersburg, 2025 ACFR). The schedule credits the city's Economic Development Department for the counts and leaves out governmental and school employees, so the city government, the school district and public colleges do not appear on it (2025 ACFR). Ten employers are ranked, and together they account for 17,837 employees, or 12.45 percent of total city employment (2025 ACFR).

Three of the ten names on the schedule are health care names: All Children's Health, St. Anthony's Hospital and HCA Hospital (2025 ACFR). Duke Energy, seventh with 1,250 employees, also tops the same report's 2025 Principal Property Tax Payers schedule, where its business type is listed as Utility, Power (2025 ACFR).

Last verified: October 18, 2026, by re-reading the Principal Employers pages of the city's 2025 and 2024 financial reports, the 2025 Pinellas QCEW file and the city's Gateway district page.

The 2025 St. Petersburg list is smaller and more varied than the city's 2016 list: the ten largest employers held 15.27 percent of city jobs in 2016 and 12.45 percent in 2025.

In 2016 the ten principal employers totaled 20,300 employees, and the 2016 shares are divided by the city's estimated 2015 total of 129,677 employees (2025 ACFR, 2016 column). Raymond James led then too, at 3,300, and All Children's Health was second at 3,200; HSN was third with 2,200, FIS Management Services fourth with 2,000, and Publix Super Markets and St. Anthony's Hospital each had 1,900 (2025 ACFR). Jabil Circuit was seventh with 1,700, and Bayfront Medical, Brighthouse Networks and Transamerica Life Insurance Company completed that list; none of those three is on the 2025 schedule (2025 ACFR).

The change from one year to the next is sharper. The 2024 report ranked Publix Super Markets third with 2,200, Bayfront Medical and HSN at 1,700 each, Charter Communications at 1,500 and FIS Management Services at 1,400; all five are gone from the 2025 list (City of St. Petersburg, 2024 ACFR). All Children's Health fell from 3,800 in 2024 to 2,800 in 2025, St. Anthony's Hospital from 2,000 to 1,437 and Jabil Circuit from 2,000 to 1,700 (2024 ACFR; 2025 ACFR). Power Design rose from 1,300 and tenth place to 1,700 and third (2024 ACFR; 2025 ACFR). The ten-employer total dropped from 22,400 in the 2024 schedule to 17,837 in 2025 (2024 ACFR; 2025 ACFR).

Neither St. Petersburg report explains the swings, so the schedule shows who was counted in each year, not why a count moved. A reader tracking one company should compare its own announcements with the next report rather than read a single year's change as a trend.

Health care and social assistance is the largest private industry in Pinellas County, with 69,740 jobs on average in 2025, followed by retail trade with 50,590 and accommodation and food services with 48,869.

Those counts come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, which publishes by county rather than by city, so the figures cover St. Petersburg together with the rest of Pinellas County (BLS QCEW, Pinellas County 2025 annual). Industry names follow the BLS code list, where code 62 is health care and social assistance, 44-45 retail trade, 72 accommodation and food services and 54 professional, scientific, and technical services (BLS QCEW industry titles).

Health care leads both views: it is the county's biggest private industry, and hospitals hold three of the ten places on the city's employer list (2025 ACFR; BLS QCEW). Construction added 1,478 jobs, a 6.0 percent gain, the largest increase of any big private industry in the county in 2025 (BLS QCEW).

Finance and insurance pays the most of any large Pinellas industry, an average of $141,146 a year in 2025, with management of companies and enterprises close behind at $140,658.

The BLS code list places corporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices (NAICS 551114) within management of companies and enterprises, code 55 (BLS QCEW industry titles). Pinellas had 415 such establishments with 14,512 jobs in 2025, 29 more jobs than in 2024 (BLS QCEW, Pinellas County 2025 annual). Finance and insurance had 2,169 establishments and 20,724 jobs, but lost 983 jobs, or 4.5 percent, over the year (BLS QCEW).

At the other end, Pinellas accommodation and food services averaged $32,632 a year (BLS QCEW). Professional, scientific, and technical services averaged $94,548 and manufacturing $82,727 (BLS QCEW). Both are averages for a whole industry, so a single employer's pay can sit well above or below them.

Hospitality is also where Pinellas County lost jobs in 2025: accommodation and food services was down 1,190 jobs, or 2.4 percent, from 2024, while professional, scientific, and technical services gained 447, or 1.3 percent (BLS QCEW).

The City of St. Petersburg had 3,212 full-time and 607 part-time employees on September 30, 2025, and the ACFR's Principal Employers schedule leaves governmental employers out.

The city's Human Resources Department counts 786 full-time and 105 part-time police employees, 408 full-time Fire and EMS employees and 398 full-time workers in the water and wastewater utility (2025 ACFR, employees by function). Recreation and culture has more part-time than full-time workers, 405 against 363, and sanitation has 198 full-time employees (2025 ACFR). The Pier had six full-time positions in 2025; the report notes the city took over direct management of The Pier in fiscal 2022 from a third-party management company (2025 ACFR).

Countywide, local government averaged 29,013 jobs in 2025 at $66,747 average pay, federal agencies 7,453 at $102,936 and state government 5,726 at $56,708 (BLS QCEW, Pinellas County 2025 annual). Within local government, educational services accounted for 12,389 jobs and public administration for 15,795 (BLS QCEW; BLS QCEW industry titles). Anyone comparing the city list with the county figures should remember that public payrolls are excluded from the first and included in the second.

The city places several of the region's top employers in the Gateway area of north St. Pete, which it says supports more than 2,700 businesses and 60,000 employees.

The city's economic development page names Raymond James Financial, Home Shopping Network and Jabil among the region's top employers in Gateway and points to a workforce of over 712,000 people within a 30-minute drive (City of St. Petersburg, About the Districts). Power Design's general headquarters is at 11600 Ninth Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33716, and its main line is 727 210 0492 (Power Design).

Power Design is the clearest expansion story in the official sources. The city says the national electrical contracting business is expanding its 70,000 square foot headquarters with an investment of over $3 million, adding a 34,326 square foot manufacturing and distribution center and a 19,600 square foot office, and that the project is expected to create 60 new jobs (City of St. Petersburg, About the Districts). The city page carries no date, so the timing is not stated. Businesses in the area can reach the Gateway Business Council through [email protected] (City of St. Petersburg).

The same city page still lists Home Shopping Network as a Gateway employer, while HSN no longer appears on the city's own 2025 Principal Employers schedule (City of St. Petersburg; 2025 ACFR).

The St. Petersburg employer counts come from the city's Economic Development Department, most of them are round numbers, and the percentage column should be read with care.

Both the 2024 and the 2025 schedules divide each employer's count by the same total, 147,705 employees in the City of St. Petersburg, a figure the notes attribute to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2024 ACFR; 2025 ACFR). The same 147,705 figure appears in the notes of both reports. The city's demographic table in the same report gives a 2025 unemployment rate of 4.0 percent, up from 3.3 percent in 2024 (2025 ACFR).

The Digital Towns St. Petersburg top employers guide covers the countywide employer ranking, and the St. Petersburg economy hub lists every economy guide.

Each year's report is posted on the city's Budget and Finance page, so the next Principal Employers schedule will appear there with the fiscal 2026 report (City of St. Petersburg, Budget and Finance).