The Big Story: Crappy jobs in Tampa Bay
January 14, 2008 at 10:54 am by Wayne GarciaSaturday and Sunday’s SP Times brought plenty more evidence that Tampa Bay is not creating lots of good-paying jobs. This from the Water Cooler column:
The hottest $100,000-plus job markets range from New York and San Francisco to Seattle and Chicago. Tampa and Detroit continue to be among the tightest markets in the 20 markets surveyed.
Detroit. We suck as bad as Detroit. That’s saying something. (The info came from TheLadders.com, a job search website.) Those $100K jobs are competitive, as you might expect:
And which companies do those surveyed most want to work for in the area? Ceridian, L-3 Communications and Wachovia. For every job paying $100,000 or more here, there are on average eight candidates.
From Saturday’s paper, we find that Tampa Bay is stuck at a middling 49th in the Top 100 cities for new job creation:
 Forbes.com has come out with its list of the best cities for jobs in 2008 – based on measures like median income, unemployment, income growth, job growth and cost of living – and no Florida metro areas made the top 25. Then, Florida cities appeared in clusters with Jacksonville, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale at Nos. 26-28, respectively.
The only difference between today and 10 years ago in this area is that at least back then, the chambers and other public officials talked about creating new jobs and diversifying the local economy beyond tourism and construction.
