Gov. Scott: Tampa Added More Than 39,000 Jobs Over the Year in April 2015

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Today, Governor Rick Scott announced the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) added 39,100 new jobs over the year in April 2015. The unemployment rate in the Tampa metro area declined by 0.7 percentage point over the year, from 5.7 percent in April 2014 to 5.0 percent in April 2015. Florida businesses have added more than 865,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010.

Governor Scott said, "The Tampa area led the state in online job demand and STEM job demand in April, which is great news for Tampa Bay families. We also announced today that Florida has added 865,600 private-sector jobs since December 2010. Families across the state are finding more opportunities to succeed and our state is on the way to becoming the global destination for jobs."

In April 2015, the Tampa metro area led the metro areas in job gains over the year in leisure and hospitality with 12,300 new jobs, education and health services with 9,400 new jobs, and manufacturing with 900 new jobs. Nine of the ten major industry sectors gained jobs over the year in April 2015. The Tampa Bay MSA was first among the state metro areas in online job demand in April 2015 with 50,796 openings. The metro area was also first in the state in demand for high wage, high skill science technology engineering math (STEM) occupations with 14,555 openings in April.

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 Tampa Bay and the state's other 23 Regional Workforce Boards.

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