Florida · NAICS 53 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Florida
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 53 in Florida, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (NAICS 53) employed about 224,400 people in Florida across roughly 50,388 establishments, with average annual pay of $73,100.
Employment in Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Florida grew 18.8% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in Florida as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.44). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 224,400. 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.
- 224,400Employment, 2025
- 50,388Establishments
- $73,100Avg. annual pay
- 2.3%Share of Florida jobs
- 1.44Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 163,700; 2005 173,800; 2006 180,600; 2007 175,700; 2008 172,700; 2009 156,600; 2010 152,300; 2011 153,000; 2012 162,400; 2013 167,300; 2014 172,900; 2015 179,700; 2016 182,800; 2017 185,000; 2018 190,000; 2019 197,700; 2020 188,900; 2021 197,800; 2022 212,400; 2023 219,500; 2024 223,200; 2025 224,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 224,363 | 50,388 | $73,099 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2024 | 223,244 | 50,520 | $70,187 | 1.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 219,487 | 50,219 | $67,564 | 3.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 212,398 | 48,420 | $66,142 | 7.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 197,817 | 46,213 | $60,966 | 4.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 188,858 | 43,067 | $55,610 | 4.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 197,666 | 40,922 | $51,975 | 4.0% | pub. |
| 2018 | 189,977 | 39,152 | $51,174 | 2.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 184,967 | 37,891 | $49,480 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2016 | 182,804 | 37,008 | $47,622 | 1.8% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of real estate and rental and leasing | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 531 | Real Estate | 173,097 | 77.1% | 1.47 | pub. |
| 532 | Rental and Leasing Services | 49,039 | 21.9% | 1.35 | pub. |
| 533 | Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works) | 2,227 | 1.0% | 1.60 | pub. |
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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Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Florida, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for real estate and rental and leasing 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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