Unemploymentremained unchanged at 3.7%.
The increase has been 4.5% over the past 12 months.
There also were gains in the entertainment industry, with the strikes down in the rearview mirror.
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Employment in motion picture and sound recording rose to 444,800, up 11,700 from the previous month.
Employment in publishing industries rose to 938,000, up 2,900.
The BLS often adjusts its data as more information becomes available.
Some projections had been that the economy would add 180,000 jobs during January.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moodys Analytics, had some words of caution about the figures.
He wrote on Twitter, Head-scratcher.
Thats the Januaryjobs report.
Measurement problems are clearly at play.
But abstracting from all the statistical noise, the signal is the economy is VERY strong.
