Florida · NAICS 481 · Annual, 2025
Air Transportation in Florida
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 481 in Florida, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Air Transportation (NAICS 481) employed about 58,200 people in Florida across roughly 852 establishments, with average annual pay of $114,850.
Employment in Air Transportation in Florida grew 28.9% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.6× as concentrated in Florida as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.60). Average pay in the industry is 57.8% above the all-industries average in Florida. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Florida are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 58,200Employment, 2025
- 852Establishments
- $114,850Avg. annual pay
- 0.6%Share of Florida jobs
- 1.60Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 31,000; 2005 31,300; 2006 29,700; 2007 31,100; 2008 31,400; 2009 30,700; 2010 30,400; 2011 32,400; 2012 33,400; 2013 33,000; 2014 33,800; 2015 36,600; 2016 38,900; 2017 40,900; 2018 43,200; 2019 45,900; 2020 45,200; 2021 45,800; 2022 53,300; 2023 58,300; 2024 59,300; 2025 58,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58,219 | 852 | $114,853 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2024 | 59,307 | 855 | $110,777 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 58,255 | 812 | $97,361 | 9.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 53,344 | 757 | $92,419 | 16.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 45,758 | 724 | $89,036 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 45,173 | 690 | $82,680 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 45,888 | 678 | $82,326 | 6.2% | pub. |
| 2018 | 43,202 | 668 | $80,977 | 5.7% | pub. |
| 2017 | 40,862 | 670 | $78,138 | 5.1% | pub. |
| 2016 | 38,894 | 666 | $74,755 | 6.2% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Air Transportation in Florida, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for air transportation in Florida. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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