The U.S. economy started 2020 by adding 225,000 jobs in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. In 2019, 175,000 were added each month on average .

The January unemployment rate remained low at 3.6 percent and average hourly earnings increased by seven cents.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump delivered his 2020 State of the Union address in which he celebrated “a blue collar boom.”

“In eight years, under the last administration, over 300,000 working age people dropped out of the workforce. In just three years of my administration, 3.5 million people, working age people, have joined the workforce,” Trump said.

The January jobs report detailed the many sectors where jobs were added including Construction which added 44,000 jobs, health care with 36,000 jobs, and transportation and warehousing with 28,000.