May unemployment rate comes in at 13.3%, better than the 19.5% expected

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Employment unexpectedly rose by 2.5 million in May and the jobless rate declined to 13.3% according to data Friday from the Labor Department that was far better than economists had been expecting and indicated that an economic turnaround could be close at hand.

Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting payrolls to drop by 8.333 million and the unemployment rate to rise to 19.5% from April’s 14.7%.

The May gain was by far the biggest one-month jobs gain in U.S. history since at least 1939.

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