Major Employers in Tallahassee, Florida

The largest employers in Tallahassee are the State of Florida, Florida State University, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, Leon County Schools, the City of Tallahassee and HCA Florida Capital Hospital, sized below by their own or federal figures.

The table sizes each employer from its own official page and sizes state and federal government from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the Tallahassee metro. The figures use different dates and counting methods (jobs, people, colleagues), so the order is a guide rather than an exact rank.

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare describes itself as the number one largest private employer in its region, with 6,000+ colleagues and 50 primary care, urgent care and specialty clinics (Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare). FSU employed 16,069 people across all departments in 2024 (Florida State University).

State government held 43,900 jobs in the Tallahassee metro in August 2026 (preliminary), more than any private industry sector in the metro (BLS).

That figure comes from the BLS state and metro employment series published on FRED, which also shows 14,600 local government jobs and 2,000 federal jobs in the Tallahassee metro in August 2026 (FRED state government, FRED local government, FRED federal government).

Together, government at all levels accounted for 60,500 of the 200,500 nonfarm jobs in the Tallahassee metro in August 2026, a preliminary BLS figure, or roughly three jobs in ten (BLS).

The state series moves with the calendar in Tallahassee. FRED shows 47,300 state government jobs in April 2026 and 43,400 in May 2026, so a comparison of capital city employment should match the same month across years rather than compare spring with summer (FRED). The state capital payroll and legislative session guides cover state employment in more depth.

Of the single Tallahassee institutions that publish a headcount, FSU is the biggest, at 16,069 workers in 2024.

Of those FSU workers, 7,414 were regular-salaried full-time employees, 103 were regular part-time, and the remaining 8,552 were employed under the OPS classification (Florida State University). FSU also reports that, including indirect effects, it contributed $3.95 billion of total industry output and 36,034 jobs (Florida State University).

Florida A&M University, a public, historically Black university located in Tallahassee and founded October 3, 1887, enrolls nearly 10,000 students from across the United States and more than 70 countries (FAMU). FAMU does not post a current employee count on its About page, so it does not appear in the table with a number.

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, with 6,000+ colleagues, and HCA Florida Capital Hospital, with more than 1,400 employees, are the two hospital employers in Tallahassee that publish their workforce size.

HCA Florida Capital Hospital reports more than 1,400 employees and 500+ providers at a 288-bed acute care hospital offering emergency services in Leon and Gadsden counties (HCA Florida Capital Hospital).

On April 10, 2026, Florida State University announced that it and the City of Tallahassee had completed the legal transfer of city-owned hospital assets, and that Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare becomes the clinical anchor of FSU Health, the university's academic health system (FSU News).

The same FSU announcement says TMH will continue operating the hospital and remains responsible for patient care, employees and daily operations, and that the FSU Health Research Center under construction on the TMH campus was expected to open later in 2026 (FSU News).

Leon County Schools, with approximately 4,300 employees, and the City of Tallahassee, with nearly 4,000, are the largest local public employers in Tallahassee that publish a headcount.

Leon County Schools reports approximately 32,000 students, 2,400 teachers and 4,300 employees (Leon County Schools). The City of Tallahassee described its workforce as nearly 4,000 employees in its fiscal year 2025 review (City of Tallahassee). BLS counts 14,600 local government jobs in the Tallahassee metro in August 2026, a preliminary figure (FRED local government).

On the private side, professional and business services held 31,100 jobs and trade, transportation and utilities 26,900 in August 2026, both preliminary BLS figures (BLS).

Capital City Bank Group, Inc., which issues its releases from Tallahassee, reports about $4.4 billion in assets, and its bank subsidiary, Capital City Bank, was founded in 1895 and runs 62 banking offices in Florida, Georgia and Alabama (Capital City Bank Group).

Innovation Park, a 208-acre research and development park in southwest Tallahassee governed by the Leon County Research and Development Authority, is home to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

The Leon County Research and Development Authority describes Innovation Park as the premier research and development park in the Tallahassee and Leon County area, located near Florida State University, Florida A&M University, the state capitol and Tallahassee International Airport, and says it opened for business in 1982 (Innovation Park). FSU, along with the University of Florida and Los Alamos National Laboratory, won the bid to house the MagLab, which was dedicated at Innovation Park in 1994 (Innovation Park).

The MagLab is funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of Florida, lists its Tallahassee lab at 1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive, and has seven user facilities across its three campuses, which more than 1,800 researchers use every year (MagLab).

Private employment in Tallahassee is growing while public employment shrinks: in the second quarter of 2026, private sector employment rose by 1,300 from a year earlier while public sector employment fell by 900.

Those quarterly numbers are posted on the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality (OEV) dashboard, which also reports an average weekly wage of $1,301 in the fourth quarter of 2025, up $76 from a year earlier (Office of Economic Vitality).

A February 12, 2026 OEV release, posted by Leon County, reported that the Tallahassee-Leon County metro added approximately 2,100 jobs in 2025, that about one-third of workers employed in the region commute from surrounding counties, and that private-sector activity made up about 76 percent of real GDP in 2024, up from 74 percent in 2019 (Leon County).

For a job seeker or a business sizing the Tallahassee market, the figures above show state government, FSU and the hospitals as the largest single payrolls, while OEV reports private sector employment rising and public sector employment falling. The metro unemployment rate was 4.9 percent in August 2026, a preliminary figure (BLS). The Office of Economic Vitality guide covers that office's programs.