‘Business-Friendly’ Florida Beats New York for First Time in 40 Years in Number of Jobs
The state of Florida saw more jobs than New York for the first time in four decades in 2022, which many see as part of a trend of Americans moving out of states like New York in search of a low-tax, low-cost lifestyle.
In Florida, there were 9,578,500 nonfarm jobs by the end of 2022, which was higher than the 9,576,100 jobs in New York, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This is the first time since 1982 that Florida has seen more employees than New York. Out of the 51 metropolitan regions having a population of a million or more, Florida’s Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach area registered the lowest jobless rate in December, with only 1.9 percent of the local workforce looking for work….