The Post and Courier reported that hospitality and tourism hires in Myrtle Beach helped make the coastal community one of the hottest U.S. job markets of the last five years.
The hospitality and tourism sector accounted for a quarter of all job growth in the Myrtle Beach area over the last five years.
In a list compiled by 24/7 Wall Street using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Grand Strand area ranked 12th among U.S. metros for the most jobs added from October 2014 to October 2019.
The number of people on payrolls went up close to 30,000, an increase of about 18 percent. The leisure and hospitality sector accounted for a quarter of all the jobs added.
Myrtle Beach was the metro area located fully in the state of South Carolina that made the list.
The most recent jobs report, which tracked employment changes over the last year, ranked Myrtle Beach even higher for job growth. The area saw a 5.2 percent increase in the number of people on payrolls since October 2018, which was second only to another east coast tourism hot spot, Ocean City.
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