United States ADP Employment Change 2001-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Private businesses in the United States hired 237 thousand workers in August of 2017, the most in five months and beating market expectations of 183 thousand. The service-providing sector added 204 thousand jobs, boosted by trade, transportation and utilities (56 thousand); leisure and hospitality (51 thousand); education and health (45 thousand); professional and business (39 thousand); financial activities (11 thousand) and other services (5 thousand) while job losses occurred in the information sector (-3 thousand). The goods-producing sector added 33 thousand jobs due to construction (18 thousand) and manufacturing (16 thousand) while the natural resources and mining sector shed 1 thousand payrolls. Large companies were the ones hiring the highest number of workers (115 thousand), followed by midsized (74 thousand) and small firms (48 thousand). July's data was revised sharply higher to 201 thousand from an initial estimate of 178 thousand. ADP Employment Change in the United States averaged 67.09 Thousand from 2001 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 384 Thousand in February of 2006 and a record low of -846 Thousand in February of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2017-07-06	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change	158K	230K	185K	185K
2017-08-02	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change	178K	191K	185K	179K
2017-08-30	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change	237K	201K	183K	180K
2017-10-04	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change		237K		185.8K
2017-11-01	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change				190.1K
2017-12-06	01:15 PM	ADP Employment Change				192.2K

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	4.40	4.30	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	156.00	189.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	165.00	202.00	1089.00	-816.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	-9.00	-13.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	36.00	26.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	284.00	298.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1944.00	1951.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	237.00	201.00	384.00	-846.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	153439.00	153513.00	153513.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	7132.00	6981.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.10	0.30	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.40	34.50	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	62.90	62.90	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	1.08	1.11	2.80	1.01	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.90	9.00	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	108.81	108.75	109.07	17.12	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	108.08	107.66	108.08	27.60	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	6502.00	6138.00	6502.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	6170.00	6116.00	6170.00	2196.00	Thousands	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	33825.00	28307.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.12	22.08	22.12	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	20.85	20.96	20.96	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	2.95	3.49	13.77	-5.77	percent	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.50	0.80	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Labor Market Conditions Index	1.50	3.30	32.00	-48.40	Index Points	[+]
Population	324.30	322.06	324.30	76.09	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Living Wage Family	1496.20	1497.50	1497.50	1433.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1407.76	1399.20	1407.76	1302.75	USD/Month	[+]
Part Time Employment	27569.00	27535.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Full Time Employment	125755.00	125921.00	125987.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Employment Rate	60.10	60.20	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	1780.00	1810.00	1860.00	1450.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4130.00	4150.00	4150.00	4000.00	USD/Month	[+]

United States ADP Employment Change Notes

The ADP National Employment Report measures levels of non-farm private employment. The Report is based on the actual payroll data from about 24 million employees processed by the Automatic Data Processing, Inc. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States ADP Employment Change - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States ADP Employment Change - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2017.