Plumbing Recruiters in Jacksonville, FL

About 2,380 plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters worked in the Jacksonville metro in May 2025, earning a median of $28.33 an hour ($58,920 a year), against $25.00 in Tampa and $26.62 in Orlando, per BLS. A Jacksonville offer that matches a Tampa band will not get a callback from an experienced service plumber. The North Florida neighbors pay less still: Gainesville’s plumber median is $51,600 a year, Deltona-Daytona Beach’s $50,490, and Ocala’s $49,910, so Jacksonville plumbers seldom leave the metro for money.

Demand runs on two engines. Duval County’s homes are old: the median was built in 1986 and 55.6% predate 1990, so repipes, water heaters, drain lines, and slab leaks fill service boards. Meanwhile St. Johns County, the fastest-growing county in Florida last year, keeps builders hiring rough-in crews, which pulls plumbers away from service work.

We define the lane first (service, repipe, or new construction) and the side of the river your trucks work, then reach plumbers already in that lane. Each plumber we put forward has had their license and any Jacksonville or St. Johns card looked up, has scored acceptably in a structured phone interview, and has cleared the background and motor-vehicle checks your policy sets.

If your band sits below the local median, we say so before sourcing starts, with the data. Every placement carries a 90-day replacement guarantee.

More homes than local shops. St. Johns County grew faster than any Florida county from 2024 to 2025, yet BLS QCEW counted only 101 residential plumbing and HVAC contractor locations there in mid-2025, employing 788 people, against 361 locations and 4,175 people in Duval. Clay County had 64 locations and 283 people. That is a small local employer base for one of Florida’s fastest-growing counties, and a shop with a St. Johns location has an edge with plumbers who live there and want to work close to home.

In Duval County alone, BLS QCEW counted 361 residential plumbing and HVAC contractor locations and 89 commercial ones in the second quarter of 2025; St. Johns County added 101 residential and 11 commercial, and Clay County 64 and 11. BLS groups plumbing with HVAC in these counts, so plumbing alone is a subset. Average weekly pay for all workers was $1,270 at Duval’s residential plumbing and HVAC contractors.

The City of Jacksonville’s Construction Trades Qualifying Board still runs journeyman craftsman exams ($65) and has a journeyman plumber seat on the board. Thanks to a 2024 change to [section 489.1455](http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0400-0499/0489/Sections/0489.1455.html), a plumber carded in Duval can use that card in St. Johns or Clay, and a card from anywhere else in Florida is valid in Jacksonville too. Florida itself issues no journeyman license. Whether a card is required for your seat is worth confirming with the city; we note card status on every candidate.