Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the Miami area added 22,400 new private-sector jobs in the last year. The Miami area’s unemployment rate was 2.7 percent in November, down 0.6 percentage point from one year ago.

The industry with the highest growth over the year in the Miami area was education and health services with 13,000 new jobs.

Miami continued to rank third among the state’s metro areas in job demand with 38,851 openings in November, and once again offered the third-highest number of high-skill, high-wage STEM jobs with 10,475 online ads.

Statewide, Florida businesses created 10,300 new private-sector jobs in November 2019. Florida’s annual private-sector job growth rate of 2.6 percent continues to exceed the nation’s rate of 1.6 percent. Florida’s unemployment rate of 3.1 percent represents a drop of 0.2 percentage point over the year. This is while 200,000 people entered Florida’s labor force, a growth of 1.9 percent in the past year.

To view the November 2019 employment data, visit www.floridajobs.org/labor-market-information/labor-market-information-press-releases/monthly-press-releases.

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