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The US economy added 143K jobs in January 2025, well below an upwardly revised 307K gain in December and forecasts of 170K. Job gains occurred in health care (44K), retail trade (34K), and social assistance (22K) and government employment continued to trend up (32K). The BLS said that wildfires in LA and severe winter weather in other parts of the country, had “no discernible effect” on employment in the month. Meanwhile, the BLS published the annual benchmark revisions for 2024. The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for November was revised up by 49K to 261K and the change for December was revised up by 51K to 307K. With these revisions, employment in November and December combined is 100K higher than previously reported. Considering full 2024 however, payroll employment increased by 1.99 million, averaging 166K jobs per month, lower than 2.2 million or an average monthly gain of 186K initially reported.