Of course, as has been the case every month this year, previous months' data was revised lower, with September down by 35K from 297K to 262K and October remaining flat at 150K (the BLS is getting a little shy of all these downward revisions taking place the next month) and will instead be revised lower in January. So expect today's "beat" to be revised to a miss next month... when it won't matter.
Still, the number was solid especially when considering that the number of employed workers as counted by the Household survey surged by 747K to 161.969 million, following several months of disappointing prints, and rising to the highest on record
kinda nice to get a sliver of decent economic data as most of its negative.