2019 Bermuda Job Market Employment Briefs
Today [Aug 23] the Minister for the Cabinet Office Wayne Furbert released the 2019 edition of the Bermuda Job Market Employment Briefs publication from the Department of Statistics.
Minister Furbert said, “The Employment Briefs provides a broad count of all jobs in the Bermuda labour market by selected demographics, industrial and occupational groups. It examines employment changes between the years 2017 and 2018.”
“The publication shows that total jobs in the economy rose from 33,659 in 2017 to 33,810 in 2018. The Minister also stated that the Hotel sector recorded increased employment to the tune of 186 filled posts. Filled jobs for Service Workers and Shop Market Sales Workers increased by 138. The median gross annual income for employees who worked in establishments with ten or more filled jobs climbed by $1,088 from $64,250 to $65,338.”
Copies of the Employment Briefs are available online. More detailed information on Bermuda’s job market can be obtained from the 2018 Employment Survey Tabulation Set.
The 2019 Employment Brief follows below [PDF here]
The full 2018 Employment Survey Tabulation Set follows below [PDF here]
So fewer Bermudians are employed under the PLP than were employed under the OBA.
What with that and the cruel tax increases they’re really sticking it to us aren’t they.
But some get to fly First Class everywhere. And the media consultants get their $2.5m.
What Mr. Furbert failed to note is that the number of Bermudians employed dropped by 92 jobs in 2018 while ‘non-Bermudians’ went up 223 positions.
So based on their rhetoric whilst in Opposition, is the PLP now anti-Bermudian and pro-foreigner like the big bad OBA?
Minister for the cabinet????!!!!! F and F
These numbers are clearly not good for Bermudians or the Minister would have held a press conference to announce them. The fact they are released on Friday afternoon with just a few comments is further confirmation. Are the Government hiring numbers being suppressed? Are most of the increases in jobs for non Bermudians, showing the PLP are not pro Bermudian but in fact pro foreigner? Something is not right.