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Adecco Group North America, which has been known as MPS Group Inc., plans to ask the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission next week for financial incentives to add 100 full-time jobs to its Jacksonville operations by the end of 2012.
The JEDC is scheduled to review the request, dubbed “Project Tower” in the JEDC agenda, at its meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday.
“Adecco remains fully committed to the Jacksonville community. The potential to add 100 new jobs in Jacksonville reaffirms that commitment,” said Tyra Tutor, senior vice president of corporate development for Adecco Group North America.
Adecco said in July that it will leave the Modis Building Downtown in spring 2011 for Building 200 in the Deerwood South office park at Southside and Butler boulevards. The new jobs would be added there.
According to the project summary, Adecco requests a Qualified Target Industry Tax refund of up to $300,000, or $3,000 per job, based on the higher-than-average wages it projects.
Of that total, the City would refund $60,000 and the state would be responsible for the remainder. The deal requires City and state approvals.
The refund would not be made until Adecco created the jobs.
Adecco would pay an average wage of $45,600, plus benefits valued at $15,960, generating an annual payroll of about $4.6 million.
The project summary reports that the average wage exceeds 115 percent of the state average annual wage and the jobs will require skills in marketing, law, accounts receiveable, accounts payable, payroll, procurement, and other administrative functions.
Adecco wants to add the jobs to support internal company operations in various corporate administrative functions at its new offices in Deerwood Park in Southside.
Adecco reports it plans to invest private capital of $300,000 for furniture, fixtures and computer equipment.
The project summary says Adecco has a current workforce of about 236 employees in its Jacksonville operations.
Tutor said the company continues to support “many local community organizations, including recent sponsorship commitments with The Cummer Museum of Arts and Gardens, The Jacksonville Symphony and St. Vincent’s Hospital.”
Adecco leases about 115,000 square feet in the Modis Building on the Downtown Northbank. It will lease 78,292 square feet in Southside.
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