economist john ryding calls it extremely encouraging. >> we're hitting at an employment pace now of 250,000 jobs a month. that's a million jobs every four months, that's three million jobs a year, if sustained. and, that's certainly a major step forward compared to the recovery pace we've seen over the last two years. >> reporter: in february, the strongest hiring came in professional and business services with 82,000 jobs. still, more than half of those were at temp agencies. healthcare added 61,000 new jobs, restaurants and bars hired 41,000 workers and the manufacturing sector added 31,000 new employees. naysayers don't believe the current pace of job growth is sustainable. they point to nasty prices at the pump and how they're expected to hurt economic growth. but, some experts predict the damage will be modest. >> i think the question is whether hiring will slow in response to that weakening growth number. we think it will slow a little bit. but, we're hopeful that we're going to continue to hold somewhere close to 200,000 in payroll gains as we make our way thought the rest of this ye