Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the West Palm Beach area added 13,300 new private-sector jobs in the past year. The area’s unemployment rate was 3.6 percent in June, down 0.3 percentage point from one year ago.

The industries with the highest growth over the year in the West Palm Beach area were education and health services with 4,500 new jobs and professional and business services with 4,000 new jobs.

In June, the West Palm Beach area had 24,918 job openings and of those, 7,343 were for high-skill, high-wage STEM jobs.

Statewide, Florida businesses created 11,500 new private-sector jobs in June 2019. Florida’s annual private-sector job growth rate of 2.7 percent continues to exceed the nation’s rate of 1.7 percent. Florida’s unemployment rate of 3.4 percent represents a drop of 0.2 percentage point over the year. This is while 124,000 people entered Florida’s labor force, a growth of 1.2 percent in the past year.

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

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