Analysts had expected 540,000 new jobs, but cautioned that temporary U.S. Census jobs would account for 425,000 of those. In other words, the expectation was for roughly 115,000 “real” jobs.

Unfortunately, it didn’t happen that way. In fact, on net, we gained just 20,000 non-Census jobs in May.

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