Amazon.com is the region’s largest nongovernmental employer.
JAXUSA Partnership, the economic development division of JAX Chamber, reports the area’s at least dozen Amazon facilities employ about 16,000 people.
In just six years, online retailing, warehousing and delivery took over as the area’s No. 1 job provider, reflecting how consumers shop and how that practice was reinforced during the pandemic.
Amazon, the Seattle-based online retailer, opened its first two fulfillment centers in September 2017 in Northwest Jacksonville and October 2017 in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center, with the help of $26.7 million in city and state incentives for creating 2,700 jobs.
Since then, it opened another fulfillment center, two sortation centers, a heavy bulk freight center and several delivery stations, with at least one more planned. None of those subsequent facilities received incentives.
After Amazon, Baptist Health is No. 2 with 12,400 jobs.
Seven regional health care centers dominated the list of the Top 25 employers with Baptist Health, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Ascension St. Vincent’s, UF Health, HCA Florida Memorial Hospital, Brooks Rehabilitation and Flagler Health+, now UF Health St. Johns and UF Health Flagler Hospital
Together, those seven employers account for almost 35,000 jobs.
The top 25 nongovernmental employers comprise almost 104,000 jobs.
Amazon is in the chamber’s targeted industry of transportation and logistics, while the medical centers are classified as life sciences.
Financial services accounted for more than 27,000 jobs among the top 25 employers, led by Bank of America and Florida Blue, although most of the financial services companies were also classified in other sectors, too, such as technology services.
Amazon now has multiple fulfillment and delivery stations and is the region’s largest nongovernmental employer, according to job numbers released by JAX Chamber.
1. Amazon
Employees: 16,000
What they do: The e-commerce giant operates multiple fulfillment centers and delivery stations.
2. Baptist Health
Employees: 12,400
What they do: Its facilities include six hospitals and three satellite emergency rooms.
3. Bank of America
Employees: 7,700
What they do: The banking and financial services company has multiple branches and an operations center in Gramercy Woods.
4. Mayo Clinic
Employees: 6,400
What they do: The clinical practice, education and health care research campus is on San Pablo Road.
5. Florida Blue
Employees: 5,700
What they do: The health insurance provider has multiple offices and a campus in South Jacksonville.
6. Ascension St. Vincent’s
Employees: 5,400
What they do: Has four hospitals and multiple primary care facilities in the region.
7. UPS
Employees: 4,500
What they do: The delivery and shipping giant has a package delivery hub at Westside Industrial Park.
8. UF Health
Employees: 4,200
What they do: The University of Florida health care provider has two hospitals in Jacksonville.
9. Citi
Employees: 4,000
What they do: The financial services firm has a credit card operations center in Flagler Center.
10. JPMorgan Chase
Employees: 3,900
What they do: The banking and financial services firm has multiple branches and a mortgage operations center.
11. Johnson & Johnson Vision
Employees: 3,500
What they do: The global company has a contact lens manufacturing facility on the Southside.
12. Gate Petroleum
Employees: 3,000
What they do: In addition to gas stations and convenience stores, it operates resorts, country clubs and a precast concrete company.
13. CSX Corp.
Employees: 2,900
What they do: The freight railroad company is the largest public company headquartered in Jacksonville.
14. AT&T
Employees: 2,600
What they do: The telecommunications firm offers cellphone and internet services.
15. HCA Florida Memorial Hospital
Employees: 2,370
Operates a 454-bed acute care hospital on University Boulevard South and other facilities.
16. Brooks Rehabilitation
Employees: 2,240
What they do: Has two hospitals in Jacksonville on University Boulevard and Brooks Bartram Drive.
17. Deutsche Bank
Employees: 2,200
What they do: The financial services company’s second-largest U.S. operation outside of New York is in Jacksonville.
18. Black Knight
Employees: 2,120
What they do: Processes nearly two-thirds of all first mortgage loans along with other software and data solutions.
19. Newfold Digital
Employees: 2,000
What they do: Provides internet solutions for small to medium size businesses around the globe.
20. One Call
Employees: 1,970
What they do: Represents insurance and other companies in the workers’ compensation industry.
21. Flagler Health+
Employees: 1,800
What they do: The St. Johns County hospital merged with UF Health in September.
22. Parallon
Employees: 1,790
What they do: Provides revenue cycle management services, which track patient revenue, and is an affiliate of HCA Healthcare.
23. Aetna
Employees: 1,700
What they do: The health insurance provider has an office in Gramercy Woods in Southside.
24. Fanatics
Employees: 1,700
What they do: Global retail and online sports merchandiser maintains its commerce headquarters in Jacksonville.
25. VyStar Credit Union
Employees: 1,690
What they do: The second-largest credit union headquartered in Florida has its campus in Downtown Jacksonville