You are looking the wrong places. You are just looking at the aggregate number of jobs. But thats not relevant. What's relevant is how many new jobs are created and those numbers are going down.
Also the way jobs are defined is problematic here is how it's defined.
"People are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey reference week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time, year-round employment. Individuals also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week, whether they were paid or not, because they were:
On vacation
Ill
Experiencing child care problems
On maternity or paternity leave
Taking care of some other family or personal obligation
Involved in a labor dispute
Prevented from working by bad weather
These people are counted among the employed and tabulated separately as with a job but not at work, because they have a specific job to which they will return."
https://plot.ly/~BethS/8/job-growth-by-decade-in-the-united-...
Also the way jobs are defined is problematic here is how it's defined.
"People are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey reference week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time, year-round employment. Individuals also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week, whether they were paid or not, because they were:
On vacation
Ill
Experiencing child care problems
On maternity or paternity leave
Taking care of some other family or personal obligation
Involved in a labor dispute
Prevented from working by bad weather
These people are counted among the employed and tabulated separately as with a job but not at work, because they have a specific job to which they will return."
https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
95% of the jobs created since 2008 are temp jobs.
So no it doesn't look steady once you actually start looking into the details.