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Gov. Scott: West Palm Beach Added More Than 11,000 Jobs Over the Year

Press Release

Date: Oct. 16, 2015
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Economy and Fiscal

Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that the West Palm Beach area added 11,800 jobs over the year in September 2015, and the unemployment rate declined by 0.7 percentage point since last year down to 5.2 percent in September 2015. Florida businesses have added 941,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010.

Governor Scott said, "It is great news that the West Palm Beach area added more than 11,000 jobs over the year. We will keep working to do all we can to make Florida first for jobs."
The industries with the largest job gains over the year were professional and business services with 6,600 new jobs and education and health services with 3,200 new jobs. The West Palm Beach metro area also had 20,691 job openings in September, including 5,362 high-wage, high-skill science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) openings.

Florida created 8,700 private-sector jobs in September 2015, and a total of 941,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010. Florida's statewide unemployment rate for September 2015 was 5.2 percent. In September, more than 40,000 Floridians were placed in jobs by CareerSource Palm Beach and the state's other 23 regional workforce boards.


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