Fewer Jobs but More Money for Tampa Bay
The Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce succeeded in bringing higher paying jobs to the Bay Area over the last year. The average yearly salary of jobs brought in this year was $52,362, up 35% from the $38,796 average of jobs brought to the area in 2005.
Unfortunately this came at the expense of the number of new jobs. Only 1,545 were brought in, less than half of the 3,288 of 2005. The Chamber invested roughly twice as much money in luring in new companies this past year, over $166 million.
Better jobs, but fewer of them [St. Petersburg Times]