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Employees work inside the city’s first Amazon fulfillment center near Jacksonville International Airport.Employees work inside the city’s first Amazon fulfillment center near Jacksonville International Airport.
Employees work inside the city’s first Amazon fulfillment center near Jacksonville International Airport. | Jacksonville Daily Record

Amazon tops list of Northeast Florida employers

By Karen Brune Mathis - Jacksonville Daily Record
Published on October 16, 2023 at 11:11 am
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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.

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