450+ Social Services & Counseling Jobs in Tampa, FL

Observed local wage data is middling, not premium. The Tampa metro wage table shows a median annual salary of $49,040 for social workers, with a 25th-75th range of $44,410 to $63,350 and a 90th-percentile value of $79,750. The broader community and social service group averaged $58,660 a year and $27.94 an hour locally. As a current proxy from live postings, local advertised pay centers on about $51k to $70k, with hourly postings centered on about $31 to $37 / hour.

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Advertised pay

Across the 224 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $61,020 at the 25th percentile, $82,500 at the median and $96,215 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Tampa Bay is still a workable market for Social Services, Counseling & Community, but it is not an easy one. Local education and health services payrolls grew 2.3933% year over year in June 2026, and Florida employment in this occupation family was up 1.1% in July, yet Florida active postings for the field were down 21.1% year over year and metro unemployment reached 4.7%, up 17.5000% from a year earlier. Local opportunity is real rather than hypothetical: more than 125 postings were observed across more than 50 companies over the last 90 days, alongside fresh Tampa-area state-board openings for an Abuse Counselor and a Medicaid Waiver Liaison plus a July 15 Pinellas County Government hiring event in Clearwater.

Best positioned: Candidates with a few years of case-management or healthcare-linked social-services experience, especially those who can prove crisis intervention, documentation, care planning, and interdisciplinary collaboration, have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming this market is mainly remote nonprofit work; about 85% of sampled postings were on-site, only about 5% were remote, and about 65% of postings sat in healthcare-linked employers.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 466 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Select Physical Therapy: 45 open roles
2. BayCare Health System: 28 open roles
3. BayCare Health System, Inc.: 28 open roles
4. CORA Physical Therapy: 21 open roles
5. HCA Florida Healthcare: 16 open roles
6. PT Solutions: 16 open roles
7. Chrysalis Health: 14 open roles
8. HealthPRO Heritage: 9 open roles
9. Orlando Health, Inc.: 9 open roles
10. Tampa General Hospital, Inc.: 9 open roles

Where the openings are

• Tampa: 150
• Clearwater: 47
• St. Petersburg: 34
• Largo: 29
• Wesley Chapel: 26
• Saint Petersburg: 22
• Brandon: 21
• Palm Harbor: 13

Work arrangement

on-site 402 (87%), hybrid 42 (9%), remote 17 (4%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in healthcare-linked employers, not evenly spread across all community organizations. In the local posting sample, about 65% of openings sat in healthcare, with additional share in healthcare services and hospitals, and the most consistently active employers included BayCare Health System, Empath Health, Chapters Health System, Inc., HCA Florida Healthcare, VITAS Healthcare, and NaphCare, Inc. That lines up with the metro's above-average concentration in community and social service work, where the location quotient was 1.4 and the employment ratio was 1.7. A second lane sits in public and quasi-public coordination work rather than private therapy practice. Fresh Tampa-area openings on the state board included an Abuse Counselor role and a Medicaid Waiver Liaison role, while Pinellas County continued to market hiring and featured a Human Services-related opening. By contrast, remote-first search strategies are a weak fit here because only about 5% of sampled postings were remote and about 10% were hybrid. The practical implication is that Tampa rewards candidates who can operate inside care systems: hospitals, hospice, county services, disability services, and other referral-heavy environments. Purely generalist, mission-only positioning is less effective than showing you can manage caseloads, document accurately, and coordinate across teams.

• Hospital, hospice, and health-system case management (high): This is the strongest lane. Healthcare made up about 65% of sampled postings, and active employers included BayCare Health System, Empath Health, Chapters Health System, Inc., HCA Florida Healthcare, and VITAS Healthcare.
• County, state, and disability-services coordination (moderate): Public-sector demand is smaller but concrete, with recent Tampa-area openings for an Abuse Counselor and a Medicaid Waiver Liaison plus Pinellas County hiring activity and a Human Services-related opening.
• Remote-first and senior leadership roles (limited): These are the hardest slices to target because only about 5% of sampled postings were remote, and less than 5% were senior roles.

Where to focus: Prioritize healthcare-linked case management and public-sector coordination roles, and keep remote-only searches as a small secondary lane.

Roles worth searching next

• Patient navigator / care coordinator: It uses the same core base of case management, patient assessment, documentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration that local employers already ask for.
• Medicaid eligibility specialist / waiver liaison: A recent Tampa-area Medicaid Waiver Liaison opening shows that community-facing eligibility and coordination work is active locally.
• Utilization review or discharge-coordination support: This path overlaps with care planning, patient assessment, discharge planning, and interdisciplinary coordination already visible in local demand.

What postings ask for

• Case management (table_stakes | immediate): It is the clearest local baseline skill, appearing in about 50% of sampled postings. Who: Everyone in the category, especially entry-level and career-switcher candidates.
• Crisis intervention (differentiator | immediate): It showed up in about 20% of sampled local postings and helps separate direct-service candidates from general coordinators. Who: Candidates targeting counselor, intake, youth, and urgent community-response work.
• Documentation, care planning, and patient assessment (table_stakes | immediate): Local employers repeatedly ask for documentation, care planning, patient assessment, discharge planning, and patient education, which signals that workflow reliability matters as much as mission fit. Who: Anyone applying into healthcare systems, hospice, or county service delivery.
• EHR software and clinical compliance (differentiator | near-term): Regional hiring guidance emphasizes EHR navigation, regulatory documentation, patient financial guidance, and clinical case-management tools as key current capabilities. Who: Mid-career applicants and career switchers coming from adjacent healthcare or admin roles.
• LCSW or Florida social-work licensure pathway (premium | near-term): Local postings explicitly mention LCSW and licensed clinical social worker requirements, and national BLS guidance says clinical-track roles typically require a master's degree and licensure. Who: Candidates aiming for higher-responsibility healthcare or clinical-track social work roles.
• CPR certification (table_stakes | immediate): It appears in the local certification mix and can remove a simple screening barrier in care settings. Who: Entry-level candidates and anyone targeting facility-based or field-facing roles.

Questions about this market

What do Social Services, Counseling & Community roles pay in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL?

Observed local wage data is middling, not premium. The Tampa metro wage table shows a median annual salary of $49,040 for social workers, with a 25th-75th range of $44,410 to $63,350 and a 90th-percentile value of $79,750. The broader community and social service group averaged $58,660 a year and $27.94 an hour locally. As a current proxy from live postings, local advertised pay centers on about $51k to $70k, with hourly postings centered on about $31 to $37 / hour. That usually means Tampa pays enough for stable mid-career work, but not enough to assume easy salary upside without specialization. Older local subrole estimates also show a spread: substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors were at $52,370, child, family, and school social workers at $51,560, and healthcare social workers at $63,290.

Where is demand for Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in healthcare-linked employers, not evenly spread across all community organizations. In the local posting sample, about 65% of openings sat in healthcare, with additional share in healthcare services and hospitals, and the most consistently active employers included BayCare Health System, Empath Health, Chapters Health System, Inc., HCA Florida Healthcare, VITAS Healthcare, and NaphCare, Inc. That lines up with the metro's above-average concentration in community and social service work, where the location quotient was 1.4 and the employment ratio was 1.7. A second lane sits in public and quasi-public coordination work rather than private therapy practice. Fresh Tampa-area openings on the state board included an Abuse Counselor role and a Medicaid Waiver Liaison role, while Pinellas County continued to market hiring and featured a Human Services-related opening. By contrast, remote-first search strategies are a weak fit here because only about 5% of sampled postings were remote and about 10% were hybrid. The practical implication is that Tampa rewards candidates who can operate inside care systems: hospitals, hospice, county services, disability services, and other referral-heavy environments. Purely generalist, mission-only positioning is less effective than showing you can manage caseloads, document accurately, and coordinate across teams.

Which employers are hiring the most Social Services, Counseling & Community talent in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL?

Recent postings show the most activity from BayCare Health System (10 postings), Empath Health (10 postings), Chapters Health System, Inc. (10 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 85% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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