Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) — Palm Beach, Broward & Miami-Dade Counties
Net Migration reflects IRS SOI county-to-county filings (Total Migration-US and Foreign) — the net change in tax-filer exemptions between consecutive filing years, inclusive of moves into and out of the country. FRED real GDP and unemployment rate vintages reflect the most recent BEA/BLS releases as of the data badge above.
Between 2019 and 2026, employment in Palm Beach went from 620,166 to 672,223, an increase of 8.4%. Average annual wages went from $58,240 to $92,768, rising 59.3% over the same period.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Chart shows the STL trend (raw quarterly values omitted for clarity). Trend computed via STL decomposition (period=4, robust); salary on log scale. Projection extrapolates a linear fit through the last 4 trend points to the current calendar quarter — the horizon shrinks as new QCEW data is published. BLS does not publish seasonally adjusted QCEW — this is a custom estimate.
In 2026 Q1, the county's largest private-sector employers are Health Care & Social Assistance (17.0%), Retail Trade (12.8%), and Accommodation & Food Services (12.4%).
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Each rectangle is a 2-digit NAICS sector; size is total private employment in the displayed quarter. Use the buttons below the chart to view earlier years; the narrative reflects the most recent quarter. Colors group sectors into broad industry domains (matching the Industry Landscape chart). Sectors with suppressed BLS data and 'Unclassified' are excluded.
Each bubble is a 2-digit NAICS industry in 2026 Q1; size reflects total employment. The horizontal split at 0% salary growth and the vertical split at 0% employment growth define four regions. Both growth rates are year over year. Industries expanding on both fronts (jobs and pay): Accommodation & Food Services, Other Services, and Transportation & Warehousing. Educational Services are losing both jobs and pay growth.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Growth rates compare each industry's employment and average wage in the latest quarter to the same quarter one year ago, per BLS QCEW.
In the most recent quarter (2026 Q1), the county's establishment count expanded by 891 firms — the net of 810 added across growing industries and 14 lost across shrinking ones.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Each blue bar sums the QoQ establishment growth across industries that gained firms; the red bar sums the loss across industries that shed firms. The dark line shows the county's BLS-published private establishment net change (own_code=5, agglvl=71) — it does not equal the sum of the bars because BLS suppresses small-cell industries from the per-sector view. The dashed gold benchmark is U.S. private-sector QoQ growth rescaled to the county's private establishment base — like-for-like with the bars. Trailing quarters with no benchmark mean the national figure hasn't been published yet. Q1 typically shows a large negative pattern across counties due to year-end reporting cycles in QCEW. This is not true gross firm openings and closings — BLS does not publish those at the county level.
Between 2019 and 2026, employment in Broward went from 820,616 to 855,401, an increase of 4.2%. Average annual wages went from $56,732 to $80,236, rising 41.4% over the same period.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Chart shows the STL trend (raw quarterly values omitted for clarity). Trend computed via STL decomposition (period=4, robust); salary on log scale. Projection extrapolates a linear fit through the last 4 trend points to the current calendar quarter — the horizon shrinks as new QCEW data is published. BLS does not publish seasonally adjusted QCEW — this is a custom estimate.
In 2026 Q1, the county's largest private-sector employers are Retail Trade (13.7%), Health Care & Social Assistance (13.0%), and Accommodation & Food Services (11.4%).
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Each rectangle is a 2-digit NAICS sector; size is total private employment in the displayed quarter. Use the buttons below the chart to view earlier years; the narrative reflects the most recent quarter. Colors group sectors into broad industry domains (matching the Industry Landscape chart). Sectors with suppressed BLS data and 'Unclassified' are excluded.
Each bubble is a 2-digit NAICS industry in 2026 Q1; size reflects total employment. The horizontal split at 0% salary growth and the vertical split at 0% employment growth define four regions. Both growth rates are year over year. Industries expanding on both fronts (jobs and pay): Health Care & Social Assistance, Professional & Technical Services, and Manufacturing. Retail Trade and Real Estate are losing both jobs and pay growth.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Growth rates compare each industry's employment and average wage in the latest quarter to the same quarter one year ago, per BLS QCEW.
In the most recent quarter (2026 Q1), the county's establishment count expanded by 955 firms — the net of 803 added across growing industries and 17 lost across shrinking ones.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Each blue bar sums the QoQ establishment growth across industries that gained firms; the red bar sums the loss across industries that shed firms. The dark line shows the county's BLS-published private establishment net change (own_code=5, agglvl=71) — it does not equal the sum of the bars because BLS suppresses small-cell industries from the per-sector view. The dashed gold benchmark is U.S. private-sector QoQ growth rescaled to the county's private establishment base — like-for-like with the bars. Trailing quarters with no benchmark mean the national figure hasn't been published yet. Q1 typically shows a large negative pattern across counties due to year-end reporting cycles in QCEW. This is not true gross firm openings and closings — BLS does not publish those at the county level.
Between 2019 and 2026, employment in Miami-Dade went from 1,166,977 to 1,277,549, an increase of 9.5%. Average annual wages went from $58,708 to $93,444, rising 59.2% over the same period.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Chart shows the STL trend (raw quarterly values omitted for clarity). Trend computed via STL decomposition (period=4, robust); salary on log scale. Projection extrapolates a linear fit through the last 4 trend points to the current calendar quarter — the horizon shrinks as new QCEW data is published. BLS does not publish seasonally adjusted QCEW — this is a custom estimate.
In 2026 Q1, the county's largest private-sector employers are Health Care & Social Assistance (15.8%), Retail Trade (12.2%), and Accommodation & Food Services (11.8%).
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Each rectangle is a 2-digit NAICS sector; size is total private employment in the displayed quarter. Use the buttons below the chart to view earlier years; the narrative reflects the most recent quarter. Colors group sectors into broad industry domains (matching the Industry Landscape chart). Sectors with suppressed BLS data and 'Unclassified' are excluded.
Each bubble is a 2-digit NAICS industry in 2026 Q1; size reflects total employment. The horizontal split at 0% salary growth and the vertical split at 0% employment growth define four regions. Both growth rates are year over year. Industries expanding on both fronts (jobs and pay): Health Care & Social Assistance, Professional & Technical Services, and Transportation & Warehousing.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Growth rates compare each industry's employment and average wage in the latest quarter to the same quarter one year ago, per BLS QCEW.
In the most recent quarter (2026 Q1), the county's establishment count expanded by 2,348 firms — the net of 2,061 added across growing industries and 0 lost across shrinking ones.
Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly
Each blue bar sums the QoQ establishment growth across industries that gained firms; the red bar sums the loss across industries that shed firms. The dark line shows the county's BLS-published private establishment net change (own_code=5, agglvl=71) — it does not equal the sum of the bars because BLS suppresses small-cell industries from the per-sector view. The dashed gold benchmark is U.S. private-sector QoQ growth rescaled to the county's private establishment base — like-for-like with the bars. Trailing quarters with no benchmark mean the national figure hasn't been published yet. Q1 typically shows a large negative pattern across counties due to year-end reporting cycles in QCEW. This is not true gross firm openings and closings — BLS does not publish those at the county level.