Unemployment for October 2015:

The media are alight with the news that 271,000 jobs were added to the economy last month, but let’s see how the month stacks up by the IB metric:

So, better than last month, but nothing special. It’s probably better because the weeks lined up better

Most of the jobs were added in low-paying jobs like retail sales, temps, social assistance, and serving food, though professional & technical services (probably relatively high paying jobs) accounted for 10% of the job increase.