Florida

Fort Lauderdale Gains 27K Jobs Over the Year in June

Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday the Fort Lauderdale area gained 27,300 jobs over the year in June.

"In the past four and a half years, we have cut taxes in Florida 50 times, including $400 million in tax cuts this year," said Gov. Scott. "Our focus on creating a low tax, business friendly environment is helping grow jobs across the state, including Fort Lauderdale families."

The Fort Lauderdale Metro Area's unemployment rate declined from 6.0 percent in June 2014 to 5.1 percent in June 2015.

Florida businesses have added more than 896,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010.

The industries with the largest job gains over the year were professional and business services with 5,700 new jobs, construction with 4,700 new jobs, and education and health services with 4,200 new jobs.

In June 2015, the Fort Lauderdale Metro Area was ranked fourth among all metro areas in Florida for online job demand with 23,118 openings.

The area also ranked fourth for high wage, high skill science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) job openings with 5,693 openings.

Florida’s statewide unemployment rate for June 2015 was 5.5 percent.

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