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Florida Shutdown: Leisure, Hospitality Industries Lost The Most Jobs Locally. Here’s How Other Industries Fared.
June 7, 2020
The unemployment rate in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties jumped to 12% in April, 9.1% higher than the region’s year ago rate of 2.9%.
As expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Florida’s state at home orders, the leisure and hospitality industries were the hardest hit, losing 5,300 jobs. That was followed by 2,500 jobs lost in retail trade industries.
The chart above detail job losses over the past year by sector in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
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3 Responses to “Florida Shutdown: Leisure, Hospitality Industries Lost The Most Jobs Locally. Here’s How Other Industries Fared.”
Arrogance can be very unbecoming. We need to get people back to work regardless of their occupations. The shutdown was highly selective and unfair to many workers,m but no one needs to hear “I told you so.”
For all of you living on another planet Florida is a service industry state so you shouldn’t be surprised by this. This state relies heavily on the revenue this industry creates. When you get hit with higher property taxes, an increase in sales tax, or God forbid a state income tax, those of you that were in favor of the state staying closed I don’t want to hear you whining.
This is a service industry state that relied on this particular industry, and well the powers that be all but destroyed it. So when your property taxes go up and an increase in sales tax or God forbid a state income tax, I don’t want to hear ANY OF YOU whining. I’ll be sitting back saying “I told you so “.