A 10 Chart Look At The State of The U.S. Labor Market

Friday's top-line employment number came in at +248K, about 38K above what analysts were expecting.

The report led some Wall Street economists to label it "the perfect employment report."

Was it?  Here's a review of the labor market in 10 charts.

Monthly Growth in Jobs

Friday's net new jobs number of +248K makes it 9 months out of the past 12 of above-200K jobs.  The growth in the 3Q was one of the best in a long time, representing only a slight drop from the very strong Q2 2014 numbers (gray horizontal lines represent the average growth for the given quarter).