Recruitment in the U.S. remained stable last month despite turmoil caused by changes in trade policy.

The Labor Department said employers added 177,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at a rate of 4.2%.

The gains are bigger than many analysts expect on the signs of chaos in financial markets and concerns about the economy in business and household surveys.

Over the past few years, the resilience of the U.S. job market has surprised analysts, even if households face ups and sharp rise in interest rates, it has helped to sustain spending.

The latest figures raise some hope that the country may be able to survive the uncertainty of tariff policies without suffering a painful recession.

But analysts said caution, noting that the impact of the full import tax announced by Donald Trump will take more time to get the full feeling.

Olu Sonola, head of U.S. economic research at Fitch Ratings, said it was a good job report, although the revisions showed employers were working less in January and February than initially estimated.

"The overall message of this week's data is that the U.S. economy was fundamentally strong in the first week of April, but the outlook remains very uncertain," he said.

The Labor Department investigation came less than two weeks after Trump announced the "Liberation Day" tariffs, which have raised the average U.S. import rate to its highest level in more than a century.

Many companies say they are currently engaging in caution, citing rapid changes in policies and hope Trump's trade deal commitments will yield results.

The recruitment was led by healthcare, warehousing and transportation companies last month.

In the federal government, Trump vowed to cut spending to drop jobs - but that was offset by local government earnings.

Payrolls are also falling in manufacturing and retail companies.

The report said that the average hourly wage has risen by 3.8% over the past 12 months.

Seema Shah, chief global strategist at major asset management, said the data suggest that U.S. central banks do not face the urgency to lower interest rates to support the economy.

"Why is the Fed now starting to lower the rate now when the unemployment rate is approaching record lows, consumers are still quite strong, and inflation is above the target?" she said.

“The economy will weaken in the coming months, but with this basic momentum, if you can get out of the brink of tariffs in a timely manner, then there is a great opportunity for the U.S. to avoid a recession.”