The Labor force marks all that is able to work, this is a bit different from employed. Employed measures all the individuals that have jobs. There are many individuals that are part of the labor force, that are not employed; such as high school or college students. From the graph above you can see that as population of Southwest Florida increases so does the labor force. This is encouraging, because it lets us know that we are recieving people of many age groups, other than retirees who generally do not contribute much to the labor force. But once again notice the ups and downs, this marks the seasonal fluctuations.