Escambia Unemployment Rate Declines Slightly

January 23, 2022

The Escambia County unemployment level declined slightly last month, according to newly released data from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.

The unemployment rate in Escambia County was 3.6% in December, down from 3.8% in November. That represented 5,537 people out of work out of a county workforce of 153,2586. One year ago, Escambia County’s unemployment rate was 3.6%, or 5,133 people.

Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the Pensacola area labor force in December 2021, increased by 15,266 over the year, a 6.7% increase. The area added 6,500 new private sector jobs over the year, a 4.2% increase. The Pensacola area industry gaining the most jobs over the year was leisure and hospitality, increasing by 2,400 jobs.

Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.4% in December 2021, down 0.1% from the November 2021 rate, and down 0.7% from a year ago. There were 466,000 jobless Floridians out of a labor force of 10,660,000. The U.S. unemployment rate was 3.9 percent in December.

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One Response to “Escambia Unemployment Rate Declines Slightly”

  1. Jeff Gainey on January 23rd, 2022 8:22 pm

    Gas hike, inflation red hot, stock market way down for past week. Even major news outlets are reporting this. Economy not looking good at all. Hold on tight yall. Once they raise that interest rate it’s fixing to be bad.

    Love you family now because the future is not guaranteed yall. Keep our heads up.

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