Former Gov. Doyle created more Private Sector Jobs in his Last Year than Walker's First.

For Scott Walker, it wasn’t about job’s, it was about making corporations more money.

Here’s an early look at the jobs numbers Walker is so hot on, job increases that he probably had nothing to do with, since the economy was slowly improving anyway.

jsonline: This sounds good: The 23,000-odd jobs Wisconsin added last year, on balance, were heavily concentrated in high-wage industries.

And not so good: From December 2010 to December 2011, the average weekly wage in Wisconsin declined.

Through the first nine months of last year, Wisconsin's job growth lagged the country as a whole in percentage terms, and also lagged every other state in the industrial Upper Midwest.

And whatever forward motion on jobs has occurred under Walker, it actually falls short of employment growth during the last year of Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle's administration.  The Workforce Development data site shows that during 2010, Doyle's final year, Wisconsin added 32,713 jobs. Almost all were in the private sector. In fact, Wisconsin added more private-sector jobs in Doyle's last year than it did in Walker's first.

The average wage declined in two-thirds of the industries analyzed. About half the industries gained jobs, and about half lost them. Gainers and losers appeared at all wage levels, but the net gains skewed sharply toward industries with relatively high average pay. The biggest employment gain by far - 7,002 jobs - came in the "Unclassified" sector. That catchall category also saw a whopping 36% drop in its average wage.

"Very peculiar," Richard Freeman, a Harvard University economics professor who reviewed the Wisconsin data said. ". . . It makes no sense that wages fell by one-third."