How about the BLS?
The figures for these reports come from surveys. There is no grand census of people who work or of the folks who are turning in money to the IRS or any particularly impressive and accurate method of counting folks who are working.
They just call guys up and ask if they are working or not. That is the "Household Survey". It's not much different than me calling guys up and asking who wants to watch the Colts today.
Then there is the Establishment Survey. Same thing, except that in this exercise, they are asking employers who hired and how many.
The difference is usually pretty small. In September, 2012, the difference was outrageous AND California did not report on time. Interesting.
Anyway, here are the approximate results:
Household survey: + 873,000 jobs
Establishment Survey: +114,000 jobs
Assuming that both numbers are perfect, a fantasy, then we must also assume that nobody hired the other 760,000 newly employed and the only other explanation is that they started their own businesses.
This should have been a big proclamation of the the Obama/Biden team, but i don't recall hearing anything about the unprecedented new start ups of small businesses.
Did you?
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf