Tampa Healthcare Industry: Jobs, Pay and Major Employers

Private health care and social assistance employers in Hillsborough County averaged 108,525 jobs at 6,862 establishments in 2025, up 4,456 or 4.3 percent over 2024, with pay averaging $75,404.

Those counts come from the 2025 QCEW file for Hillsborough County, which covers Tampa and the rest of the county (BLS QCEW, county 12057). Federal employers add another 5,907 health care and social assistance jobs at 3 establishments, paying an average of $122,467 (BLS QCEW, federal rows). The sector's private pay sits a little below the $78,261 average for all private Hillsborough jobs, and the 23,733 Hillsborough jobs at nursing and residential care facilities and in social assistance average $42,727 and $40,604 a year (BLS QCEW).

Growth is the bigger story. For the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro, BLS counts 264.4 thousand education and health services jobs in August 2026, still marked preliminary, 3.8 percent above a year earlier and the fastest 12-month growth of any sector in the BLS metro summary, with the August label confirmed on the BLS education and health services series for the metro. Total metro employment grew 0.9 percent over the same period.

Two lines did almost all of the Hillsborough County hiring. Ambulatory health care services added 2,262 jobs in 2025 and hospitals added 1,979, together 4,241 of the 4,456 private health care jobs gained in the county that year, about 95 percent (BLS QCEW). Social assistance added 248, and nursing and residential care slipped slightly.

Ambulatory health care services, the group that includes offices of physicians and outpatient care centers, employ the most people in Hillsborough County health care, 49,266 in 2025, followed by hospitals with 35,527 private jobs.

All rows are from the 2025 Hillsborough County file (BLS QCEW), with industry names from the QCEW industry titles. The table does not add up to the sector total because subgroups such as home health care and dental offices are not shown.

The pay spread inside Tampa health care is wide. Offices of physicians averaged $125,046 in 2025, nearly three times the $42,727 at nursing and residential care facilities, which were the only major Hillsborough health line to lose jobs (BLS QCEW). Employer size differs just as much. The 1,678 Hillsborough physician offices average about 12 jobs each, while the 116 private general medical and surgical hospitals average about 253, so those 116 hospitals hold more jobs than all 1,678 Hillsborough physician offices combined (BLS QCEW). Two hospital groups are hidden: BLS lists 9 psychiatric and substance abuse hospital establishments and 30 specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospital establishments in the county but publishes no job or pay figures for them (BLS QCEW, nondisclosed rows).

Tampa General Hospital reports 13,026 full-time employees and 2,706 medical staff with privileges for the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2025, with its main campus on Davis Islands.

For scale, the hospital's own full-time count equals more than 40 percent of the 29,297 jobs that BLS records at all private general medical and surgical hospitals in Hillsborough County, although the two figures are defined differently and are not strictly comparable (TGH fact sheet; BLS QCEW). Tampa General is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation governed by a volunteer board, and it lists $301.8 million in community benefit (TGH fact sheet).

The Tampa General fact sheet gives two bed figures. It counts 1,354 licensed beds in total, 1,262 adult medical and surgical beds plus 92 at Muma Children's Hospital, but says the main campus at 1 Tampa General Circle is licensed for 982 beds (TGH fact sheet). The fact sheet does not explain the difference between the two Tampa General figures, so both are reported here as the hospital states them.

The workload behind those Tampa General staff numbers is large: in fiscal 2025 the hospital reports 82,986 inpatient discharges, 984,501 outpatient visits, 48,788 surgeries and 7,606 deliveries, with an average daily census of 903 (TGH fact sheet). Those are the hospital's own counts, published on its fact sheet rather than in a state report.

TGH is also a training employer. Its fact sheet names it the primary teaching hospital for USF Health's Morsani College of Medicine, says about 700 residents and fellows are assigned to it, and adds that USF medical, nursing and physical therapy students take part of their training there (Tampa General Hospital).

Other Tampa health employers include the VA's Tampa veterans hospital, Moffitt Cancer Center and BayCare, plus more than a dozen on a city career list.

BLS records one federal hospital establishment in Hillsborough County with 5,776 jobs at $124,261 average pay in 2025, down 166 (BLS QCEW). The VA's James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital main campus, at 13000 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, lists 24/7 hours and 24/7 emergency room care (VA Tampa). BayCare St. Joseph's Hospital, at 3001 W. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., describes itself as a partner for health and wellness since 1934 (BayCare). Moffitt describes itself as the first National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida (Moffitt).

Federal health jobs in Hillsborough County pay far more on average than private ones. The single federal hospital establishment averaged $124,261 in 2025, against $78,438 at the county's 116 private general medical and surgical hospitals, a gap of about $45,800 per job (BLS QCEW). Federal hospital employment in Hillsborough County also moved the other way from the private side in 2025, shrinking 2.8 percent while private general medical and surgical hospitals grew 6.2 percent.

The TPA-WRX career page run by the City of Tampa tags these as Healthcare: AdventHealth Carrollwood, Avalon Healthcare Solutions, BayCare Health System, Care Team Inc., CareCentrix, Encompass Health (Home Health and Hospice), FairWarning, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, HCA West Florida South Bay Hospital, Northside Hospital, Optimal Performance and Physical Therapies, Optum, Palms of Pasadena, Parallon Tampa Shared Services, PT Solutions Physical Therapy, St Petersburg General Hospital and The Oaks Of Clearwater; Bristol-Myers Squibb appears under Life-sciences (City of Tampa TPA-WRX).

Read the Tampa list with care. It carries an update date of 08/04/2025, it is not ranked, and entries such as St Petersburg General Hospital and The Oaks Of Clearwater carry the names of other Tampa Bay cities, so it should not be read as a list of employers inside city limits (TPA-WRX).

USF Health in Tampa trains health professionals through the Morsani College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the College of Public Health, the Taneja College of Pharmacy, the School of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences.

USF Health also includes a multispecialty physicians group and lists its address as 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. in Tampa (USF Health, About). Tampa General serves as the primary teaching hospital for the university, and Morsani College of Medicine faculty admit and care for patients there (TGH fact sheet).

One practical point for Tampa job seekers: among the Hillsborough lines in the table above, the fastest growing in 2025 were outpatient care centers, up 6.6 percent, and general medical and surgical hospitals, up 6.2 percent, while nursing and residential care facilities were flat. Home health care services, not shown in the table, grew faster than either, adding 763 jobs or 16.4 percent to reach 5,419 at $52,201 average pay (BLS QCEW). Among the growing lines in the table, medical and diagnostic laboratories added the fewest jobs, 70.

Last verified: October 18, 2026. Every Tampa health figure here was checked that day against its source: the 2025 Hillsborough payroll file and metro summary from BLS, the Tampa General fact sheet, the VA, BayCare, Moffitt and USF Health pages, and the city's TPA-WRX list.