Gov. Scott: Miami Added More Than 33,000 Jobs Over the Year in April 2015

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Governor Rick Scott announced today that the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall metro area gained 33,700 new jobs in April 2015 compared to a year ago, the third highest number of jobs among all metro areas in Florida. The area's unemployment rate declined by 0.7 percentage point over the year, from 6.9 percent in April 2014 to 6.2 percent in April 2015. Florida businesses have added more than 865,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010.

Governor Scott said, "Today we announced that Florida's private-sector businesses have created 865,600 jobs since December 2010 and unemployment is now down to 5.6 percent. The good news continues today as we celebrate the creation of 33,700 new jobs over the year in the Miami area. This progress is great for all of Florida, and we will continue to work to make Florida the best state in the nation to live, work, and raise a family."

The Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall metro area led the Florida metro areas in job gains over the year in trade, transportation, and utilities with 9,300 new jobs. Nine of the ten major industry sectors gained jobs over the year in April 2015 in the metro area. The Miami metro area had the third highest online job demand in Florida in April 2015 with 35,149 job openings and had the third-highest number of openings for high wage, high skill science technology engineering math (STEM) occupations in April 2015 with 7,526 online openings.

Florida created 25,800 private-sector jobs in April 2015, and a total of 865,600 private-sector jobs since December 2010. Florida's statewide unemployment rate for April 2015 was 5.6 percent. In April, more than 37,600 Floridians were placed in jobs by CareerSource South Florida and the state's other 23 Regional Workforce Boards.

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