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Gov. Scott: West Palm Beach Added 13,000 Jobs Over the Year

Press Release

Date: Jan. 22, 2016
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Issues: Business, Consumers, and Employees

Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that the West Palm Beach area added 13,000 private-sector jobs over the year in December. The area's unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage point over the year to 4.5 percent in December. Florida has added more than 1 million private sector jobs since 2010.

Governor Scott said, "The entire state of Florida is growing, including the West Palm Beach area. If we continue to cut $1 billion in taxes and create the new $250 million Florida Enterprise Fund, we will ensure that we continue to add jobs as we diversify our economy."

The industries with the largest job gains over the year in the West Palm Beach area were professional and business services with 6,900 new jobs; and trade, transportation, and utilities, and education and health services, each with 3,100 new jobs. The West Palm Beach metro area also had 19,935 job openings in December, including 5,375 high-wage, high-skill science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) openings.

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 37,932 Floridians were placed in jobs by CareerSource Palm Beach County and the state's other 23 regional workforce boards.


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