John E. Dailey (Democratic) has been Mayor of Tallahassee since 19 Nov 2018. Unemployment rate: 5.2% of the labour force in Aug 2026, 1.8 percentage points higher than when John E. Dailey took office in November 2018; Florida's moved +1.0 percentage point over the same months. Among the 116 cities with a year or more of figures, Tallahassee ranks 12th on pay growth and 85th of 117 on the fall in unemployment. Over the same months Florida's real GDP per person rose 2.6% a year; Tallahassee's climbed 3.2%; the gap was widest in 2021, +4.8% against +9.2%. Over Andrew Gillum's tenure, 2014 to 2018, the unemployment rate moved −2.2 percentage points. Since day zero typical rent climbed 5.9% a year, 57.2% in all.
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