Gov. Scott: Pensacola Added 5,500 Jobs Over the Year

Press Release

Today, Governor Rick Scott announced the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metro area again experienced positive annual job growth over the year in March 2015 with 5,500 new jobs. The metro area's unemployment rate declined by 1.1 percentage point over the year, from 6.4 percent in March 2014 to 5.3 percent in March 2015. Florida businesses have added more than 841,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010.

Governor Scott said, "Job creators across Florida are continuing to create opportunities for families to live their dreams, and this is clearly evident in Pensacola. The additional of 5,500 new jobs over the year in the area is great news for families, and we look forward to continuing to build on this economic success until Florida becomes the top destination for jobs."

The industries with the largest job gains in the Pensacola metro area over the year were leisure and hospitality with 1,300 new jobs, trade, transportation, and utilities with 1,200 new jobs, and education and health services with 1,000 new jobs. The Pensacola metro area had the second fastest annual job growth rate compared to all metro areas in financial activities at 5.8 percent in March 2015. The Pensacola metro area had 5,535 online job openings in March 2015 and 983 openings for high wage, high skill science technology engineering math (STEM) occupations over the year.

Florida created 29,400 private-sector jobs in March 2015, and a total of 841,100 private-sector jobs since December 2010. Florida's statewide unemployment rate for March 2015 was 5.7 percent. In March, more than 37,400 Floridians were placed in jobs by CareerSource Central Florida, along with the state's other 23 Regional Workforce Boards.

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