Scott: Escambia Area Creates New Jobs

December 22, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott said Friday that the Pensacola area added 3,600 new private-sector jobs in the past year, making the total number of new private-sector jobs created in Pensacola 25,100 since December 2010. The area’s unemployment rate was 2.9 percent in November, down 0.8 percentage point in the past year. Statewide, Florida businesses created 23,000 new jobs in November bringing the total number of new private-sector jobs created in Florida to 1,673,500 since December 2010.

The industries with the highest growth over the year in the Pensacola area were leisure and hospitality with 1,100 new jobs and government with 1,100 new jobs. In November, Pensacola had 6,219 job openings and of those, 1,810 were for high-skill, high-wage STEM jobs in November.
Florida’s unemployment rate of 3.3 percent represents a drop of 7.5 percentage points since December 2010; this drop is faster than the national decline of 5.6 percentage points.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News