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==Economy== {{See also|List of companies based in Miami}} Companies headquartered in Palm Beach County include [[Office Depot]], [[The ADT Corporation]], [[TBC Corporation]], [[G4S Secure Solutions]], [[NextEra Energy]], [[The GEO Group]], [[American Sugar Refining]], [[Carrier Global|Carrier]], [[Globalsat Group]], and [[Bluegreen Corporation|Bluegreen Vacations]]. There are a significant number of aerospace facilities in the county, operated by [[United Technologies]], [[Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne]], [[Sikorsky Aircraft]], [[General Dynamics]], [[Lockheed Martin]], and [[B/E Aerospace]]. Many of these companies rank among the top 100 employers for the county.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bdb.org/clientuploads/Research/0_2010_data/Topemployers_2009.pdf |title=Top 100 Employers List |website=www.bdb.org }}</ref> The largest employer in Palm Beach County is the [[School District of Palm Beach County]], with 27,168 employees, including more than 12,800 teachers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.myboca.us/DocumentCenter/View/10432/Joint-Release---New-Elementary-School-Site-01262018-PDF?bidId= |title=City of Boca Raton to Provide Land for New Elementary School |format=PDF }}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Previously [[W. R. Grace and Company]] had its headquarters in [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] Palm Beach County, near [[Boca Raton, Florida|Boca Raton]], employing about 130 staff.<ref name="BRClosing">"[http://www.grace.com/media/NewsItem.aspx?id=138361 Grace Announces Relocation To Columbia, Maryland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703055556/http://www.grace.com/Media/NewsItem.aspx?id=138361 |date=2011-07-03 }}." [[W. R. Grace and Company]]. Retrieved on June 29, 2011. "The restructuring will entail a relocation of approximately 40 people, including senior management, from Grace's Boca Raton, Florida office to its Columbia, Maryland site. A few positions will be relocated to another Grace office in Cambridge, Massachusetts." and "Following the relocation, Grace will close its headquarters office at 1750 Clint Moore Road in Boca Raton, which currently employs approximately 130 people."</ref> On January 27, 2011, it announced it was closing the Boca headquarters and moving its administrative staff out of state along with some employees.<ref name="BRClosing"/><ref>to the [[Columbia, Maryland]] office. About 40 of the employees went to Columbia, and some employees went to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]</ref> Likewise, [[American Media (publisher)|A360 Media, LLC]], publisher of the ''[[National Enquirer]]'', was headquartered in Boca Raton, but moved New York in 2014.<ref> {{cite news |url = http://bigstory.ap.org/article/national-enquirer-leaving-florida-headquarters |title = National Enquirer leaving Florida headquarters |last = Sedenksy |first = Matt |date = May 21, 2014 |agency = Associated Press |archive-date=November 7, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141107093853/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/national-enquirer-leaving-florida-headquarters |access-date = June 22, 2016 }}</ref> For 2010, the median income for a household in the county was $53,242, and for a family was $64,445. Males had a median income of $44,324 versus $37,337 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the county was $33,610. About 8.6% of families and 12.2% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 18.5% of those under age 18 and 7.7% of those aged 65 or over.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |title=Palm Beach County, Florida: SELECTED ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS - 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=November 14, 2015 }}</ref>
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