Investing.com - The U.S. economy created more jobs than expected in April as wage growth in line.
The Labor Department said nonfarm payrolls were up 211,000 after a revised increase of 79,000 in March.
Analysts had expected non-farm payrolls to rise by 185,000 last month.
The March figure was revised from an initial reading of 98,000.
Average hourly wages were up 0.3% rom March when they rose a revised 0.1%.
Wages were forecast to rise by 0.3% last month.
The unemployment rate fell to 4.4% from 4.5% when expected to rise to 4.6%.
The dollar index was up 0.05% at 98.66 after the data.