Orlando lost 155,000 middle-income jobs since 2007 (Clermont: 2013, loan, job market)

[knowledgeiskey]

And people wonder why the homeless rate is getting out of control.

Middle-income jobs, in particular, were decimated by the recession after expanding earlier in the decade. Since 2007, the region has lost more than 155,000 jobs that paid between $25,000 and $75,000.

Roughly 20 percent of those jobs — about 30,000 — were in construction as the bottom fell out of Florida's growth-fueled building boom. Jobs also disappeared in dozens of other mid-pay categories, including executive secretaries, manufacturing assemblers and loan officers.

Also, some 44,000 retail-sales jobs that averaged more than $25,000 in 2007 now pay less than that, a reflection of the economic downturn.

Central Florida low-wage workforce: Central Florida metro area job market is the lowest-paying in the country - Orlando Sentinel

[Fl1150]

Two thread have already been started on this topic

[chopchop0]

Useless number without considering the context of other parts of the country.

[AONE]

Another good reason not to support Scott.

[Spring Hillian]

That is what a huge recession causes. Lost jobs.

[annerk]

Of those, how many came flocking here from other states during the housing boom to work in construction? Take those out of the picture and you'll have a more realistic number.

[tinytrump]

we are in a new construction boom- look around, there not one road I travel to the airport from Clermont I do not see construction, of all kinds as I mentioned before most crews travel with the major players to new construction sites