TALLAHASSEE – Florida unemployment dropped a tenth of a percent to 4.4% in December.
With 29,000 new people in the workforce, it marks the fourteenth straight month of job gains that now surpass the number of people working before the pandemic began.
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The state gained more than 479,000 new jobs, a 5.6% growth. Florida will update these numbers again in March.
Chief economist Adrianne Johnson said the numbers bode well for 2022.
“We are seeing a lot of growth in high-wage industries, we’re diversifying our economy,” Johnson said. “All of that is a strong picture, and I think it sets us up for a strong 2022.″
Miami-Dade County had the lowest unemployment among major metropolitan markets at 1.4%.