OTTAWA – Canada’s unemployment was unchanged at 7.3 per cent in May, as the economy added 7,700 jobs during the month — slightly more than economists expected.

The May performance follows two strong months of employment growth that saw a total of 140,000 jobs added in March and April, the biggest two-month labour market expansion in three decades.

Economists had expected May to have brought 5,000 new jobs, and the unemployment rate to have edged up to 7.4 per cent.

The jobs improvement last month came in a broad range of sectors, although there were areas of weakness.