In January, the healthcare and social assistance sector led job gains with 66,000 new positions, while retail and government added 34,300 and 32,000 jobs.

Hiring slowed in January as U.S. employers added 143,000 jobs amid the Los Angeles wildfires, frigid weather across much of the nation and uncertainty generated by President Donald Trump’s trade ...

Employers added 353,000 jobs while unemployment held at 3.7%. The strong showing was driven by health care hiring and some quirky, one-off factors. $3,500 iPhone possible?

Over a period of nearly five years, from April 2006 to January 2011, employment in residential housing construction collapsed by 45 percent, from 1.022 million jobs to just 557,000.

The January jobs report absolutely blew away economists' and market participants' expectations. U.S. total nonfarm payroll employment expanded by an almost unthinkable 517,000 new jobs in January ...

The January jobs report showed that payrolls increased by 517,000 workers last month, faster than expected, as bars and restaurants hired more workers.

"The January headline jobs number came in at 143,000 with strong revisions for the month of December. The report showed a domestic labor market that keeps on dancing to a positive tune.

Recent job reports seem to indicate that jobs and wages are now growing at a stable and healthy pace. We will be looking for that to continue with the January release. This first appeared on Dean ...

January Jobs Report Consensus Forecast. Nonfarm payroll employment up 187,500 versus a 223,000 increase for December. An unemployment rate of 3.6%, up from 3.5% in December.

The Labor Department's high-stakes January payroll report, due at 8:30 a.m. ET, is projected to show that hiring increased by 180,000 last month and that the unemployment rate inched higher to 3.8 ...