Jobs & Economy in Palm Beach Gardens
Palm Beach Gardens carries an unusually dense concentration of corporate office parks for a suburb this size, per this site's base record -- a genuine, if modest-scale, employer base beyond tourism or retirement services. The broader Palm Beach County/metro labor market showed mixed signals through 2026, worth disclosing rather than smoothing into a single trend line.
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Learn moreReal, Named Employers Headquartered in the City
TBC Corporation -- a major marketer of automotive replacement tires (parent of brands including Tire Kingdom and NTB) -- is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens and opened a new office building there in 2020, per BDB (the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County). Medical device manufacturer Anspach also has its corporate headquarters in the city. NorthCorp Corporate Park, a roughly 370,000-square-foot office/flex complex on RCA Boulevard, houses a mix of smaller businesses ranging from startups to established firms in manufacturing, biotech, research, and light industrial uses. Carrier's Center for Intelligent Buildings, located in Palm Beach Gardens, was the first building in Florida to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
"The Palm Beaches" Corporate Presence Is County-Wide, Not All Local
Regional economic-development materials note that more than 75 companies maintain corporate headquarters across "The Palm Beaches" (Palm Beach County's tourism/economic-development branding) -- names cited include ADT, Carrier Global, NextEra Energy, and Office Depot -- but these are headquartered at various points across the county (for example, NextEra Energy's headquarters is in neighboring Juno Beach, and ADT's is in Boca Raton), not all within Palm Beach Gardens city limits specifically. The city's own concentration is real but should be read as its own local cluster within that broader county-wide corporate presence, not as host to every name on that regional list.
Unemployment: A Recent Uptick
Palm Beach County's unemployment rate ran 4.40% in May 2026 and 4.8% in February 2026 -- both up from a 3.4% year-ago reading cited for the same period, per Trading Economics and regional labor-market reporting. That is a real, disclosed increase in joblessness over the prior year, not a stable or improving trend.
Metro Employment: Sources Disagree on Direction
Nonfarm employment for the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach Metro Division was cited at 701,200 in June 2026, up 1,500 jobs (0.2%) year-over-year -- but a separate February 2026 reading cited 702,800 jobs, down 10,500 (-1.5%) year-over-year for that earlier snapshot. The two readings, from different months within the same year, point in different directions and are disclosed here rather than reconciled into a single confident trend.
Key takeaways
- TBC Corporation (automotive replacement tires) and medical device maker Anspach are both headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens; NorthCorp Corporate Park (~370,000 sq ft) hosts a mix of smaller manufacturing, biotech, and R&D firms -- a real, if modest-scale, local employer cluster.
- The oft-cited "75+ corporate headquarters in The Palm Beaches" figure is county-wide branding, not specific to Palm Beach Gardens -- for example, NextEra Energy is headquartered in neighboring Juno Beach and ADT in Boca Raton, not in Palm Beach Gardens itself.
- Palm Beach County unemployment ran 4.40%-4.8% through the first half of 2026, up from a 3.4% year-ago reading -- a real, recent increase in joblessness.
- Metro-area nonfarm employment figures for the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach Metro Division disagree on direction depending on the month measured (+0.2% YoY in June 2026 vs. -1.5% YoY in February 2026) -- disclosed rather than resolved.
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