So about 25% of those jobs were government jobs. I wonder how many jobs the US government added in 2023? Given the fact that most government jobs pay exceeds the equivalent private sector jobs and the retirement pay for them blows away the Social Security pay why wouldn’t people opt to work for it?
Seek and ye shall find
Knock and the door shall be opened
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=50&eid=4881#snid=5488