2023 Top 50 Contractors from Polk County to Collier County

Even under a cloud of challenges — supply chain, labor, inflation and more — total revenue of the region’s largest contracts is up nearly 18% over the previous year.

By Mark Gordon
| 10:00 a.m. March 17, 2023
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If there’s going to be a downturn in construction later this year, then the industry is going out with a large boom.

By several metrics, the Business Observer's annual list of the Top 50 Contractors in the region, ranked by revenue, is stellar this year. For one, total revenue generated in 2022 by the 50 companies, with headquarters from Tampa through Naples, totals $7.17 billion. That’s up 17.9% from $6.08 billion in 2021. The top 10 got bigger as well, hitting $4.78 billion, up from around $4 billion in 2021.

Another interesting metric that shows the strength, and resiliency, of contractors: On this year’s list seven companies posted a decrease in revenue over the previous year, and one of those firms dropped 1%. The seven companies with lower revenues are down from 25 that posted a drop in 2020 and 13 that posted a drop in 2021.