Outlook Projection FY 2023-24
4.9%
4.2%
Updated Employment Conditions...
July 2022 Nonfarm Jobs (YOY)
US: 4.2%
FL:
4.9%
At the onset of the COVID pandemic,
employment dropped by almost 1.3
million jobs from February 2020 to April
2020, a decline of 14.1 percent. In July
2022, Florida exceeded the pre-
pandemic level (February 2020) by
357,900 jobs, a gain of 3.9 percent.
July 2022 Unemployment Rate
US: 3.5%
FL: 2.7% (283,400 jobless persons)
The Revenue Estimating Conference
assumes the "full employment"
unemployment rate is about 4 percent.
Florida's unemployment rate had been below
4.0 percent from February 2018 through
February 2020. With the onset of the
pandemic, the unemployment rate spiked to
13.9 percent in May 2020, handily surpassing
the prior peak rate of 10.9 percent experienced
in the first four months of 2010 during the
Great Recession. Florida's unemployment rate
is now approaching its lowest recorded rate in
modern times: the first half of 2006 when it
was 2.4 percent.
15.0%
10.0%
5.0%
0.0%
-5.0%
-10.0%
-15.0%
Jan-00
16.0%
14.0%
12.0%
10.0%
8.0%
6.0%
4.0%
2.0%
Seasonally Adjusted Nonfarm Jobs
Percent Change from Same Month Prior Year
Jan-01
Jan-02
Jan-03
Jan-04
Jan-05
Florida
United States
Jan-06
Jan-07
Jan-08
Jan-09
Jan-10
Jan-11
Jan-12
Jan-13
Jan-14
Jan-15
Jan-16
Jan-17
Jan-18
Jan-19
Jan-20
Jan-21
Jan-22
Source: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Workforce Statistics and Economic Research, Current
Employment Statistics Program in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 19, 2022.
United States and Florida Unemployment Rates
(seasonally adjusted)
Florida
United States
Jan-00
Jan-01
Jan-02
Jan-03
Jan-04
Jan-05
Jan-06
Jan-07
Jan-08
Jan-09
Jan-10
Source: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Workforce Statistics and Economic Research, Local Area Unemployment
Statistics Program, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 19, 2022.
Jan-11
Jan-12
Jan-13
Jan-14
Jan-15
Jan-16
Jan-17
Jan-18
Jan-19
Jan-20
Jan-21
Jan-22
3.5%
2.7%
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