Florida’s estimated number of people holding more than one job in 2025 needs a calendar-year caveat: the calculation draws on 11 months of Current Population Survey data, because October household data were not collected during the federal shutdown and will not be gathered retroactively, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says.
Within that limitation, Achieve’s analysis estimated that about 419,000 Floridians held multiple jobs, while the share of employed residents doing so was 3.9%—the second-lowest state rate. The estimates, based on people age 16 and older and reported by CW33 and WFTV, put Alabama lower at 3.5%.
A count and a rate answer different questions
The 419,000 estimate conveys the number of multiple jobholders; the 3.9% rate compares that group with Florida’s employed population. Nationally, the analysis estimated 8.8 million multiple jobholders, or 5.4% of about 163.5 million employed people. Florida’s large count therefore does not mean its share of workers with more than one job was high by comparison.
Achieve calculated state rates from average monthly estimates of multiple jobholders and employed people, rather than a single annual snapshot, according to the coverage. The missing October survey month means the 2025 figures are an incomplete-year estimate, limiting direct comparisons with full-year averages from other years.
The figures do not explain why workers take extra jobs
The estimates do not establish what prompted people to work more than one job. The Achieve analysis cautioned that its figures cannot identify workers’ motivations; the count and rate describe the scale and prevalence of multiple jobholding, not its causes.
Separate national housing data offer household-budget context, not an explanation of Florida’s estimate: the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 49.7% of U.S. renter households for which rent burden was calculated spent more than 30% of their income on housing in 2023. That statistic does not show that housing costs led anyone to take an additional job.
