Gov. Scott: West Palm Beach Added More Than 15,000 Jobs Over the Year in June 2015

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Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that the West Palm Beach metro area experienced positive annual job growth, with an increase 15,900 jobs over the year in June 2015. The metro area's unemployment rate declined by 0.8 percentage point over the year, from 6.0 percent in June 2014 to 5.2 percent in June 2015. Florida businesses have added more than 896,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010.

Governor Scott said, "June was another month of positive annual job growth for the West Palm Beach area and we are excited to see more local families find the opportunities they need to get a great job and succeed in Florida."

The industries with the largest job gains over the year were professional and business services with 6,700 new jobs, leisure and hospitality with 3,200 new jobs, and education and health services with 2,600 new jobs. In June 2015, the West Palm Beach metro area had 19,335 online job openings. The metro area had 5,132 openings for high wage, high skill science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) openings.
Florida created 12,200 private-sector jobs in June 2015, and a total of 896,900 private-sector jobs since December 2010. Florida's statewide unemployment rate for June 2015 was 5.5 percent. In June, more than 33,200 Floridians were placed in jobs by CareerSource Palm Beach and the state's other 23 regional workforce boards.

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