"Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 431,000 in March, and the unemployment rate declined to 3.6 percent," the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit within the Labour Department said in a news release. An unemployment rate of 4% or below is defined by the Federal Reserve as maximum employment.
Economists polled by US media had forecast jobs to expand by 490,000 in March from a growth of 678,000 in February.