Bonita Springs Jobs: Overview
Looking for Bonita Springs jobs? Here's what you need to know about the area. What started as a campsite near a medicinal spring in Southwest Florida is now an upscale community and destination for beach lovers. The 1870 Army Corps of Engineers set up camp to survey a river that had a spring the local Native American tribe believed to be medicinal. It made perfect sense to call the area "Survey" and the river "Surveyor's Creek." But when a Tennessee man named J.H. Ragsdale bought 2,400 acres around Survey in 1912, he wanted to develop the area into a village. He decided to rename it Bonita Springs after the medicinal spring, while the "creek" became the Imperial River.
Today, that village is a thriving community with popular beaches, state parks, and attractions like the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, the Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track, and the Hertz Arena that hosts concerts and well as the local hockey team: the Florida Everblades. If you'd like to survey Bonita Springs on your job hunt, take a look at other coastal cities in Florida like Fort Lauderdale, Cape Coral, and Fort Myers, as well.
Popular Jobs in Bonita Springs
New home construction and commercial projects keep contractors busy in Bonita Springs. The Better Business Bureau lists more than 800 accredited general contractors in the city, accounting for about 3,000 employees in construction jobs.
Much of the economy of beautiful Bonita Springs is built on tourism. More than 14% of the working population in the city have retail sales jobs, and more than 10% have food service jobs.
Other popular positions are in healthcare and the service industry, including:
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