Economic Development
Labor & Workforce
Developing, retaining and recruiting key talent are vital to the Pensacola Bay Area's economic growth. Our world-class workforce is one of the many reasons companies choose to locate here. It’s all about people, and Pensacola’s supply of unmatched employee talent is certainly no accident.
The Pensacola area has the benefit of a three county workforce to use as an asset. Escambia, along with Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties, offers a highly trained workforce of approximately 265,627.
Each year, approximately 5,000 graduates of the local university, two technical institutions, private college and our recognized junior college enter into our potential workforce. Also significant is a highly trained workforce associated with those separated from the military. This consists not only of those who retire here, but those who return after retirement and those families who come to this area with their spouses who are stationed at one of the four primary military bases and support sites in the three county area.
Florida is a Right-to-Work state guaranteeing workers the right to choose or decline union membership. Due to the positive work habits in the area, unionization is very low in the area.
2008 Pensacola Labor Availability [PDF]