Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the Naples area added 4,800 new private-sector jobs in the past year. The area’s unemployment rate was 2.5 percent in December, down 0.6 percentage point from one year ago. The Fort Myers area added 8,200 new private-sector jobs in the past year. The area’s unemployment rate was 2.5 percent in December, down 0.6 percentage point from one year ago.

The industries with the highest growth over the year in the Naples area were leisure and hospitality with 1,700 new jobs and construction with 1,000 new jobs. The industries with the highest growth over the year in the Fort Myers area were education and health services with 2,100 new jobs, and professional and business services with 1,900 new jobs.

Statewide, Florida businesses created 16,300 new private-sector jobs in December 2019. Florida’s annual private-sector job growth rate of 2.5 percent continues to exceed the nation’s rate of 1.5 percent. Florida’s unemployment rate of 3.0 percent represents a drop of 0.3 percentage point over the year. This is while 220,000 people entered Florida’s labor force, a growth of 2.1 percent in the past year.

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

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