The U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, according to a Labor Department report issued nearly seven weeks late due to the government shutdown. That was well above the gain of 50,000 jobs economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected to see. It was also better than the revised loss of 4,000 jobs in August.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, the government said, issuing a key economic report that had been delayed for seven weeks by the federal governmen...