Fort Myers, FL (population: 68,373) has three human resources schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Eckerd College, the highest ranked school in this group with a human resources program, has a total student population of 2,520. It is the 272nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 7th highest in the state of Florida (#1 is University of Miami).
Human Resources students from Fort Myers schools who go on to become human resource workers, hr managers, human resource managers, human resource specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 219,240 people working as human resources, training, and labor relations specialists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $59,070. Also, Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists make on average $54,530 per year and there are about 198,190 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers area alone, there are 170 employed employment, recruitment, and placement specialists earning an average salary of $46,090. Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists in this area earn $56,170/yr and there are 280 employed.
Fort Myers lies in Lee county, which is one of the 49 counties in Florida. Overall, the Cape Coral-Fort Myers area has 201,370 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 5% unemployment rate, $18/hr average worker wage, and a $38,330 average annual salary. Thus, about 1 out of every 1000 jobs in Fort Myers are held by human resources, training, and labor relations specialists, and 1/1000 are held by employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.
Of the 3 human resources schools with a 100-mile radius of Fort Myers, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Eckerd College comes out as the most expensive ($31,359/yr) for human resources students, with Florida Southern College as the lowest, reported at only $12,588/yr.
|Name||State||Population||# of Schools||Avg School Rank||Total Programs||Distance from Fort Myers|
|North Fort Myers||FL||51,280||0||-||0||6.1 miles|
|Cape Coral||FL||161,428||1||26.0313||32||9.3 miles|
|Bonita Springs||FL||44,290||0||-||0||20.4 miles|
|Port Charlotte||FL||49,392||1||23.17||24||29.6 miles|
|North Port||FL||58,777||0||-||0||35.8 miles|
|Saint Petersburg||FL||243,829||7||28.1391||139||92.0 miles|