Space Coast Aerospace & Defense Hiring Report

What’s inside this issue

• The Space Coast Openings Index — a same-date count of about 1,630 open A&D roles across 23 named Space Coast employers, up 12.5% from July on a comparable basis — the Index’s strongest month yet.
• Contracts & the demand signal — NSSL Lane 1’s launch-contract ceiling raised to $17B, and Northrop’s ~$1.2B Navy E-2D order with its engineering home in Melbourne.
• What the market pays — BLS wage benchmarks for local aerospace engineers, technicians, and trades vs. national.
• This month on the Space Coast — Relativity’s $350M Titusville rocket campus, Extant’s $75M Melbourne plant, launch cadence, and a third straight clean month on the WARN watch.
• Monthly Spotlight — the second shift: at least five tracked employers are now staffing production around the clock.

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