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The Florida unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent in March from February's 9.4 %. On the face of computer, the 0.Four percent unemployment drop, which can be depending on preliminary U.S. Department of Labor statistics, is good news for Florida. However when one looks at night encouraging 9 percent figure and also at the base data, what is the news is not so encouraging. In line with preliminary U.S. Department on the job statistics, 19,900 more Floridians were employed in March than in February. As well, the Florida civilian labor force decreased by 14,900. Out of those newly created jobs, 9,100 (46 percent) will be in the low-paying/part-time farming and agricultural-related industries as well as jobs including private household workers (domestic help), unpaid family workers, as well as the self-employed. Many unpaid family workers and the self-employed are involved in farming and agriculture.Farm, private household, unpaid family workers, along with the self-employed are included inside U.S. Department of Labor's monthly household survey as well as nonfarm jobs such as civilian government workers. Though the U.S. Department of Labor�s other monthly employment survey, referred to as establishment survey, only takes into account nonfarm jobs.

The nonfarm jobs within the establishment survey would be the jobs that get the most media attention and which most economists, financial analysts, stock analysts, and politicians target. Basically, the farm jobs in addition to private household workers, unpaid family workers, plus the self-employed get short shrift but they often outnumber the nonfarm jobs created monthly and they are contained in the monthly unemployment rate calculations. Since January 2011, there was clearly greater than two times as many farming and agricultural related jobs created in Florida than there was nonfarm jobs. Average Florida wages come in line with national average wages and a bit lacking in some instances. From the net total Florida nonfarm jobs created in March, 6,600 (61 percent) have been in the leisure and hospitality industry. The standard weekly pay based on national wage averages for Eighty percent of these utilized in the leisure and hospitality industry is $289.75. The hourly purchase leisure and hospitality workers is a bit over $11 each hour and the weekly pay figure averages over to $289.75 ($15,067 annually) since the average workweek for leisure and hospitality workers is concerning 25 hours.

Along with the situation effortlessly other part-time private sector workers, the U.S. Department of training in its monthly unemployment and employment data will count any of those part time leisure and hospitality workers to supplement workers as long as they work in their free time at another job. For instance: 1000 part-time leisure and hospitality workers working at Disneyworld throughout the day and working another part-time job at night for a local restaurant are going to be counted as 2000 employed workers regardless of how many hours they work. In effect, the use numbers are only job numbers versus actual employment numbers. The U.S. Department of Labor's household employment survey actually comes with a better approximation of just how many staff are employed in the farming and agricultural industries than does the U.S. Farm Census data. The Farm Census, by way of example, will issue the state run figure of approximately 2 million farm workers used in the U.S. notwithstanding the belief that you will discover over Two million farms over the U.S. In 2010 there have been about 47,500 commercial farms in Florida alone utilizing 9.25 million acres.