The U.S. labor market pumped out more jobs in its recovery from the pandemic than previously thought.

Employers added about 462,000 more jobs in the year through March than the Labor Department originally estimated, the agency said Wednesday as part of routine annual revisions. That means the economy added an average of nearly 39,000 more jobs each month for the year ended in March than previously thought.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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