(Salem, OR) -- Oregon added jobs last month and the unemployment rate increased slightly. The Oregon Employment Department reports 39-hundred jobs were added with most gains in health care and social assistance, construction, and retail trade. Financial activities and wholesale trade lost jobs. At 123-thousand jobs in December, the construction sector set a record high. Residential construction was strongest. Oregon's unemployment rate increased from three-point-six to three-point-seven percent which is the same as the U.S. unemployment rate.