Florida’s strong job growth continues as the state added 255,100 jobs over the year 2005 in November, growing at 3.4 percent, more than twice the national rate.

The national rate of growth was 1.5 percent for the same period. Based on the latest available data, Florida leads the nation in the number of new jobs created and has the lowest unemployment rate of the ten most populous states.

The state’s seasonally adjusted November 2005 unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, relatively unchanged from the revised rate of 3.5 percent in October and down by 1.1 percentage points from 4.7 percent a year ago.

Florida's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November 2005 of 3.6 percent was 1.4 percentage points lower than the national rate of 5.0 percent and relatively unchanged from the previous month.

Florida continues to see the rate of job growth exceed other comparable states.

Based on data from October 2005, the latest month for which comparable data are available from other states, Florida led all states in the number of new jobs created and had the fastest rate of annual job growth among the 10 most populous states.