ADP hiring for 1,600 jobs at new Maitland office
Payroll-processing giant ADP is bringing at least 1,600 new jobs to the region as professional-services job growth jumps across the state.
The big hiring plan comes on the heels of similar large expansions locally for firms Deloitte and Verizon, both of which opened new facilities with more than 1,000 employees each in the past two years.
Though focused on professional services, the three firms have also brought higher-paying technology jobs. The hiring has created a more competitive job market for companies seeking accountants and information-technology experts especially, and has increased pressure to offer higher salaries locally for certain positions.
ADP has confirmed that its Central Florida expansion is under way, and it has begun hiring at its new location, an office complex in Maitland.
“The Orlando area has the talent and the universities,” said Debbie Dyson, ADP corporate vice presi-
dent of client experience and continuous improvement. “For the building, we looked at several locations, and this had the right amenities, and the general location is central and has good transportation.”
The company has posted dozens of new jobs at the expansion location, with a plan to hire as many as 500 people in six months. After that, another 1,100 people will be hired over 12 months, Dyson said.
The pool of open jobs includes some management and technology positions and many more customerservice jobs to maintain existing accounts. The company also provides general human-resources management and other technology.
Statewide, professional-services jobs have been leading recent growth in jobs. For example, the latest employment report, for June, said the industry gaining the most jobs was professional and business services, with an additional 48,400 jobs, up 4 percent over the past 12 months. That’s more than the number of tourism jobs or construction jobs, other leading industries.
This year, ADP filed an application for incentive dollars from state and local governments for the expanded operations. The company was originally seeking an incentive package of $1.44 million from the state, county and city for as many as 2,400 jobs over a period of years. According to its request, the new facility would support regional headquarters functions for IT, payroll-processing, customer-service and finance jobs.
Only about 480 of those potential jobs would pay high enough — an average of $49,000 — to qualify for the government incentive package. The incentive package was approved by governments in January, including a unanimous vote by the Maitland City Council to kick in $144,000 as the city’s share of the total package.
The incentives are only paid to ADP when the jobs are created.
Deloitte was also approved for a big incentive package. Seminole County, Lake Mary and the state of Florida approved $1.7 million incentives for its expansion, if the company created 1,000 jobs in three years with an average wage of more than $60,000 a year. After hiring rapidly, the company was already nearing that job total by the end of 2015.
ADP’s new home in Maitland, at 2599 Lucien Way, has undergone a complete renovation for ADP. Crews have been working to prepare for the new tenant. ADP already has two locations in the Orlando area: 2301 Maitland Center Parkway in Maitland; and 5728 Major Blvd. near Universal Orlando Resort in the Florida Center neighborhood.
ADP is the world’s biggest payroll processor, based in Roseland, N.J., where it was founded almost 50 years ago.
The company (NASDAQ: ADP) is led by president and CEO Carlos A. Rodriguez. The company says it has a total of 55,000 employees around the globe.
ADP ranked No. 248 on the most recent Fortune 500 list, with revenue of $11.5 billion, and handled payroll for about 24 million workers in U.S. and another 12 million elsewhere. ADP says it processed nearly 56 million W-2 forms in 2015.
Dyson said Gov. Rick Scott was “instrumental in helping make the decision” to expand in Orlando.
Dyson said the company will evaluate its hiring and the performance of the new facility after the first year to determine if the job market and workforce met its expectations.