PENSACOLA, Fla. - Today, Governor Rick Scott announced the Pensacola area added 2,700 new private sector jobs over the year in December. The area's unemployment rate declined by 0.5 percentage point over the year to 4.7 percent in December. Florida has added more than 1 million private sector jobs since 2010.
Governor Scott said, 'In order to make Florida first for jobs, we must continue our focus on cutting taxes and attracting more business to our state. It's great news that Pensacola added nearly 3,000 jobs in 2015, and we will continue to work to grow jobs across the state.'
The industry with the largest job gain in the Pensacola metro area over the year was education and health services with 1,000 new jobs. The Pensacola metro area had 4,411 job openings in December and 1,004 openings for high-wage, high-skill science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations.
Florida created 21,000 private-sector jobs in December, and a total of 1,025,400 private-sector jobs since December 2010. Florida's statewide unemployment rate for December was 5.0 percent. In December, more than 34,749 Floridians were placed in jobs by CareerSource Escarosa and the state's other 23 regional workforce boards.
To view the December 2015 employment data visit www.floridajobs.org/labor-market-information/labor-market-information-press-releases/monthly-press-releases.
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