The amount of private payrolls in the month of August rose sharply at the highest pace in over give months. This is in part thanks to the strong gains in construction and manufacturing sectors.

According to the latest research done by ADP and Moody’s Analytics, companies have added 237,000 jobs in the last month of the summer. This is far more than the expected 185,000 jobs that economists thought would occur.

Job creation was also very strong in the month of March as 255,000 jobs were created. In the month of august, the number outperformed the 201,000 that were added in July. This number was changed from the initial expectations of 178,000 jobs.

The largest amount of added jobs came from service-related industries, as usual, with a gain of 204,000. The most notable of that number were the 18,000 jobs added in construction and 16,000 jobs added in manufacturing.

The sectors of trade, transportation and utilities saw the largest per-sector gains with 51,000 jobs added. The leisure and hospitality sector contributed 51,000 jobs to the sector as a whole. Education and health services grew by a solid 45,000 while the professional and business services sector grew by a number of 39,000.

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics stated that “the job market continues to power forward. Job creation is strong across nearly all industries, company sizes. Mounting labor shortages are set to get much worse.”

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The numbers that are appearing are at or what would most of the time be considered full employment. The unemployment rate has gone down to a staggering 4.3% which is a 16-year low. 440,000 jobs have been added in the past two months alone, according to the governments official confirm payrolls account.

This Friday, September 1st, the Labor Department is set to release the August tally of jobs with an expected 180,000 jobs added. Although the projections can change, it is likely that it will be on point.