December jobs report: U.S. added 256,000 non-farm jobs, beating expectations

10 Jan 2025, 15:28 by Clyde Hughes · UPI

Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. economy created 256,000 jobs in December, much stronger than what was predicted by Wall Street experts and more than 40,000 from the previous month, the Labor Department said in its report released on Friday.

The figure blew by the Dow Jones consensus, which forecasted that 155,000 nonfarm jobs were created in December. The Labor Department said the economy had created 212,000 jobs in November.