I was shocked to hear that Florida is second in the nation for tech jobs. You wouldn't think of Florida as a state with such a large high tech job market. Why aren't we attracting more of these employers to our area? We need to draw more business to the area to build our local economy and provide higher paying jobs in the area. The rapid appreciation of real estate in the area has pushed home prices up into the middle to upper-middle income ranges. We need to bring jobs to the area to support those prices.
Take a look at these stats. "On a state-by-state basis, Cyberstates 2007 shows that tech employment gains occurred in 40 cyberstates in 2005, the most recent data available. The last year that so many states saw this much tech job growth was in 2000. While it is no surprise that California led the nation in net job creation, Florida saw the second largest gain, adding 10,900 tech jobs in 2005. This is the second year in a row that Florida was among the top five states by tech employment creation." Read the full article by AeA here.
Are the community leaders involved with economic development paying attention to this? Let's draw some of these jobs here.
