South Florida’s hiring heavyweights just got called out by name. A newly expanded ranking from the South Florida Business Journal pulls together more than 400 employers across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, collectively accounting for over 260,000 local jobs. The digital version stretches well beyond what makes it into print, turning a routine list into a detailed hiring map for the region.
According to the South Florida Business Journal, the online ranking includes 407 companies, and those employers represent more than 260,000 local employees. The outlet reports that the digital roster adds more than 380 employers to the 25 featured in this week’s print edition.
Stack that against the roughly 3.0 million nonfarm payroll jobs in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area, about 2.99 million in recent counts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the picture sharpens. The Business Journal’s 260,000-job slice amounts to a sizable chunk of the region’s workforce, even as the broader employment numbers hover near pre-pandemic levels and growth patterns shift from one sector to another.
What the list includes and what it leaves out
The South Florida Business Journal notes that the compilation intentionally leaves some big players on the sidelines. Major retailers are excluded unless they are headquartered in South Florida, and governments and school districts are also left out. That choice reshapes who gets to crowd the top of the ranking and tilts the spotlight toward private-sector employers that are rooted in the region…