Florida order brief
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First decision
Florida Atlantic University's main campus sits in Boca Raton with about 31,600 students, and its athletics moved up to the American Athletic Conference on July 1, 2023, a year after the men's basketball Final Four run; that is a large, high-visibility game-day and campus-event generator right inside the city.
Published references
Role references currently span $28–$53/hr. Each number below links to the city row that publishes it.
Worksite evidence
Florida's minimum wage is $14.00 per hour (tipped cash wage $10.98) as of September 30, 2025, and rises to $15.00 on September 30, 2026, the final step of the voter-approved Amendment 2 schedule with a $3.02 tip credit. Any event staffed across that date needs both rates budgeted.
The City of Cape Coral states it has more than 400 miles of canals, many with direct access to the Caloosahatchee River and the Gulf. Waterfront private-home and dock events are a real market here, but most load-ins are residential streets with no commercial dock access.
The BayCare Sound at Coachman Park, which opened in June 2023 as the centerpiece of an $84 million downtown redevelopment, is Clearwater's new outdoor waterfront amphitheater on the mainland bluff, seating 4,000 under its canopy with room for 5,000 more on the lawn, about 9,000 total. It gave downtown Clearwater a major concert venue it did not have before, operated by Ruth Eckerd Hall.
