>> reporter: april's jobs >>mbers paint an encouraging picture, including wage growth. >> these are astounding numbers, especially this far into a recovery. >> reporter: martha gimbel is with the online job search engine indeed.com. she says while the economy has ten expanding for the last decade, job wages had remained sluggish. >> this economy just keeps chugging along and adding jobs and opportunities for workers. >> reporter: it's taken a while to get here as far as the wage orowth. e there was a lot more room for >> teconomy to grow before we got to wage growth. >> reporter: the biggest gains gere in professional and business services, construction and health care. but manufacturing employment remained flat, while the retail sector lost about 12,000 jobs. >> this is the classic goldilocks report. federal reserve would start to took at raising rates, but it's ,ot showing us that we're slowing down dramatically.