That gain would be far less than the average monthly increase of 341,000 workers over the last three months.

The April numbers showed the biggest monthly increase in more than nine years.

November's rise was the third monthly increase in a row.

The monthly increase was just 1.2 percent, the smallest climb of 1993.

"Service jobs rose 13 percent above the average monthly increase thus far in 1989," he said.

It was the biggest monthly increase since January 1990, when prices also increased 1.9 percent.

It was the biggest monthly increase in employment since March.

That would be the biggest monthly increase since the 0.6 percent in May.

In 1992, there was a permanent 10 percent monthly increase.

That gave November the largest monthly increase in seven years.