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Overall employment in the 4-county Pinellas Labor Shed grew 8% from 2015 to 2025. This has come from largely steady positive growth in the late 2010’s and immediately after the pandemic. In 2022 annual employment growth peaked at 3.7% and has since slowed.
As of 2025, the Pinellas County Labor Shed reached a total employment level of 1.53M workers. The sector with the largest share of employment is Trade, Transportation, and Utilities (285K workers), which comprises 18.6% of the regional total. Second largest is the Professional and Business Services sector with 17.0%, and the third largest is Health Services & Private Education at 16.9% of regional employment.
The labor force in the Pinellas Labor Shed grew 20% between 2015 and 2025 only declining during 2020 and consistently growing faster than the U.S. average each year. The largest growth in the labor force occurred in 2022, when the available workforce grew by 4.1%. In the proceeding years, the growth rate has slowed but remains positive.
