Professional and business services accounted for a third of hiring over the year to November.
Meanwhile, Disney reports hiring over 3,000 veterans since it launched its Heroes Work Here initiative in 2012.
Now even with hiring over the last two years, the figure is 11.8 million, a decline of 40 percent from the high.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.7percentt last month, from 4.6percentt in August, a reflection of the slowdown in hiring over the course of 2007.
The nonmanufacturing employment index was 50.3 for January, pointing to a growing pace of hiring over December's unrevised figure of 46.9.
Unless there's an unexpected spurt in growth and hiring over the next couple of months, it's very unlikely that the Fed will change course before Janet Yellen takes over from Bernanke, on February 1st.
Unemployment inched up to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent in December, but many economists were encouraged because the government now says that hiring over the last year was higher than originally thought.
At the same time, earlier estimates of job growth in July and June were revised sharply downward, and hiring over the summer months was largely driven by low-wage sectors like retail, food services and health care.
In 2006, the city began pouring millions of dollars into scouting for and hiring over 100 new officers, only to lay off 80 of them after failed union negotiations in 2010.
The number of payroll jobs added in August was just shy of the average pace of hiring over the last year, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent.
(Little reference is paid to the sectarian divide, except to acknowledge the favor Protestants enjoyed in hiring over Roman Catholics: "If they'd built the boat factory in Rome, the place would've been full of them").
