United States ADP Employment Change 2001-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Private businesses in the United States hired 163 thousand workers in August of 2018, compared with a downwardly revised 217 thousand in July and missing market expectations of 190 thousand. It is the lowest reading in ten months. The service-providing sector added 139 thousand jobs, boosted by professional and business (38 thousand); education and health (31 thousand); leisure and hospitality (25 thousand); trade, transportation and utilities (21 thousand); information (8 thousand); other services (8 thousand); and financial activities (7 thousand). The goods-producing sector added 24 thousand jobs supported by manufacturing (19 thousand) and construction (5 thousand) while natural resources and mining shed 1 thousand jobs. Midsized companies were the ones hiring the most workers (111 thousand), followed by large (31 thousand) and small (21 thousand). ADP Employment Change in the United States averaged 72.70 Thousand from 2001 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 384 Thousand in February of 2006 and a record low of -836 Thousand in February of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-07-05	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change	177K	189K	190K	190K
2018-08-01	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change	219K	181K	185K	174K
2018-09-06	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change	163K	217K	190K	182K
2018-10-03	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change				193K
2018-10-31	12:15 PM	ADP Employment Change				200K
2018-12-05	01:15 PM	ADP Employment Change				161K

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.90	3.90	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	201.00	147.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	204.00	153.00	1089.00	-821.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	-3.00	-6.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	-3.00	18.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	204.00	205.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1696.00	1711.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	163.00	217.00	384.00	-836.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	155542.00	155965.00	155965.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6234.00	6280.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.40	0.30	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.50	34.50	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	62.70	62.90	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.82	0.88	2.80	0.74	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.60	8.90	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	109.33	109.60	109.60	17.00	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	105.08	104.34	105.08	26.03	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	7313.00	6653.00	7313.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	6939.00	6822.00	6939.00	2196.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	38472.00	27122.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.73	22.66	22.73	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	4.83	4.99	13.78	-5.88	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	21.42	21.41	21.53	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.60	0.80	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Population	325.72	323.41	325.72	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		[+]
Employment Rate	60.30	60.50	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	128577.00	129021.00	129021.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	26913.00	26992.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Living Wage Family	2240.00	2150.00	2240.00	2120.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1540.00	1460.00	1540.00	1420.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4290.00	4120.00	4320.00	3640.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	2090.00	1830.00	2100.00	1650.00	USD/Month	[+]

United States ADP Employment Change

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 2018.