Tampa Bay Jobs On the Decline

As the area's unemployment rate continued to climb, more Tampa Bay jobs were lost recently.

During September, the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area saw its unemployment rate increase from 11.4 percent to 11.7 percent, which is higher than the national unemployment rate of 9.8 percent. The area has not seen its unemployment rate decrease since April, when it went from 10.5 percent to 10.2 percent.

The area had a total non-farm employment of 1,161,700 workers during September, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 1,162,200 workers during August and a 4.5 percent decrease from last year.