Since the start of the year, as a wave of census hiring lifted payrolls by 431,000 in May, Job creation by private companies grew at the slowest speed. As people gave up searching for job, the unemployment rate dipped to 9.7%.

New employment snapshots have been released by Labor Department's on Friday recommended that outside of the burst of appointing of temporary census workers by the federal government many private employers are cautious of bulking up their work forces. This shows the economic revival may not bring relief fast enough for millions of Americans who are out of work.

Almost all the job creation in May came from the hiring of 411,000 census workers. Such hiring peaked in May and will begin tailing off in June. By contrast, hiring by private employers, the backbone of the economy, slowed sharply. They added just 41,000 jobs, down from 218,000 in April and the fewest since January.

"Although the economic outlook is improving, the recovery is still pretty tepid," said Paul Ashworth, senior U. S. Economist at Capital Economics.

It has been acknowledged by the President Barack Obama that impermanent census jobs drove the overall payroll gain but private sector hiring is growing. After dreadful losses from the recession, he noted five straight months of job gains and said that the recuperation is still at its early stages and will be uneven in the months ahead.