Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Even with uptick in jobs, Florida loses ground in wages

Florida may have added 114,000 jobs last year, but they paid almost 25 percent less on average than the ones they replaced, a new analysis by the Tampa Bay Times shows.

Part of the problem is the fact that many of the newly created jobs are in several lower-wage sectors: retail clerks, theme park workers and restaurant servers, a report by the National Employment Law Project, a worker advocacy group, shows.

Occupations with the biggest growth nationally between first-quarter 2010 and 2011 were in retail sales (median hourly wage of $10.72); office clerks (hourly wage of $13.21); and cashiers (hourly wage of $8.83). But occupations that saw the biggest losses in that same time period were managers (median hourly wage of $28.30), computer scientists and system analysts (hourly wage of $29.15), and human resources and training (hourly wage of $21.71), the Times reports.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vertical_61/~3/l8JBpuEWpG8/even-with-uptick-in-jobs-florida.html

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