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Last Friday’s jobs report from the BLS shocked the market by claiming 92,000-jobs were lost in February, after the economists’ consensus called for +55,000-new jobs. Two-days previously, ADP had reported 63,000 private-sector payroll jobs being created in February – the strongest monthly private payroll gain reported by ADP since last July. ADP chief economist Nela Richardson explained this surge in jobs: “We’ve seen an increase in hiring and pay gains remain solid, especially for job-stayers,” adding this caveat: “But with hiring concentrated in only a few-sectors, our data shows no wide-spread pay benefit from changing jobs. In fact, the pay...

Amid everything else going on right now, there is also a big economic data release happening later this week — the jobs report. This week, there have been some privately-analyzed reports released. While not as thorough as the federal data, they can give some clues as to how the labor market is doing. The payroll processor ADP, for example, reported that private sector hiring jumped in February, adding 63,000 jobs. Pay was also up 4.5%, year over year.Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at the consulting firm RSM, said that jobs data is really important.“The unemployment rate, average hours worked, average hourly...

Private sector employment increased by 63,000 jobs in February and pay was up 4.5 percent year-over-year according to the February ADP National Employment Report® produced by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab ("Stanford Lab"). The ADP National Employment Report is an independent measure of the labor market based on the anonymized weekly payroll data of more than 26 million private-sector employees in the United States. ADP's Pay Insights captures over 15 million individual pay change observations each month. Together, the jobs report and pay insights use ADP's fine-grained data to provide a representative and high-frequency picture...

US private employers added fewer positions than anticipated last month, according to the private payroll processor ADP, starting 2026 off on a downbeat note. Private payrolls grew by just 22,000 in January, ADP said Wednesday, below economists' expectations of 45,000 positions. The tally for last year was perhaps an omen. "Job creation took a step back in 2025, with private employers adding 398,000 jobs, down from 771,000 in 2024," ADP chief economist Nela Richardson said in a statement. "While we've seen a continuous and dramatic slowdown in job creation for the past three years, wage growth has remained stable." Manufacturing...

Kevin Hincks reporting from the ‪@CboeGlobalMarkets‬ breaks down a pair of economic data prints that aren't impacted by the government shutdown. He shares the details on the ADP Employment Report and the weekly MBA Mortgage Applications. Kevin looks at a few earnings movers ahead of Wednesday's open calling McDonald's (MCD) move "impressive" and an important indicator of consumer behavior. ADP Payrolls Rise, Mortgage Rates Stall and "Impressive" MCD Earnings | 6:03 Schwab Network | 240K subscribers | 1,405 views | November 5, 2025

"Our hiring and pay data are broadly indicative of a healthy economy," said Dr. Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP.

Did the U.S. economy really lose jobs in June for the first time since the pandemic? Payroll king ADP says yes, but investors ought to treat the report with a heavy dose of skepticism. ADP on Wednesday said the private sector eliminated 33,000 jobs last month owing to lingering uncertainty caused by U.S. trade wars. The decline in employment was the first ADP has measured since March 2023.

The U.S. private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, according to new data from payroll-processing firm ADP, marking a sharp reversal from expectations of continued employment growth and raising fresh concerns about the labor market’s trajectory. Economists surveyed by Econoday had forecast a gain of 103,000 jobs for the month. Instead, the report released Wednesday morning showed the first monthly decline in private-sector employment since January 2021. Manufacturing, which had been a weak spot in the labor market, added a solid 15,000 jobs. Construction added 9,000 jobs. Natural resources and mining, which includes oil and natural gas extraction, added 8,000...

Companies in the private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday.

Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data. Advanced Data Protection (ADP) means only account holders can view items such as photos or documents they have stored online through a process known as end-to-end encryption. But earlier this month the UK government asked for the right to see the data, which currently not even Apple can access. Apple did not comment at the time but has consistently opposed creating a "backdoor" in its encryption service, arguing that if it did so,...

The government now has access to its citizens messages and camera roll. This is the biggest breach of privacy Western civilisation has ever seen. Britain is in big trouble.

Private sector job creation slowed further in November and wages showed their smallest growth in more than two years, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday. Companies added just 103,000 workers for the month, slightly below the downwardly revised 106,000 in October and missing the 128,000 Dow Jones estimate. Along with the modest job growth came a 5.6% increase in annual pay, which ADP said was the smallest gain since September 2021. Job-changers saw wage increases of 8.3%, making the premium for switching positions the lowest since ADP began tracking the data three years ago.

Omicron has taken a much bigger bite 0ut of the labor market than expected, data from payroll processing firm ADP indicated Wednesday. The number of workers on private payrolls fell by 301,000 in January, falling far short of expectations for growth of 225,000 jobs. This was the first decline in payrolls reported by ADP since 2020. The leisure and hospitality sector shed 154,000 jobs. Trade, transportation, and utilities dropped 62,000 workers. Other services saw payrolls decline by 23,000. Health and education jobs fell by 15,000. Information technology jobs fell by 8,000 and financial services sank by 9,000. Manufacturers cut 21,000...

Companies shed 301,000 jobs last month, sharply missing the 207,000-job gain that economists surveyed by Refinitiv had predicted and a major drop from the downwardly revised gain of 776,000 in December. It marked the first time that ADP reported negative growth since December 2020, when companies shed 123,000 jobs before the vaccines were available.

A top economist at the ADP Research Institute slapped down the asinine leftist narrative that the United States is experiencing explosive jobs growth. ADP Chief Economist Nela Richardson joined CNBC Squawk Box following the shocking news Jan.12 that inflation had spiked a whopping 7 percent year-over-year in December, the highest level since 1982. After noting that real wage earnings, “which are negative,” Richardson said whatever wage increases the media has been propping up as a bellwether for a peachy economy was driven by “labor shortages.” Richardson then dropped the hammer: “The economy — and this is an important point —...

Businesses in the United States expanded their payrolls by just 167,000 in July, according to a report from payroll processor ADP. Economists had forecast around 1.9 million, with a range between 750,000 and 3.3 million, according to Econoday. In a sign of the extreme levels of uncertainty around jobs numbers in the pandemic era, economists surveyed by Dow Jones forecast a 1 million jobs gain.

Police in Germany launched dozens of raids across the country on Thursday as part of a crackdown on incitement crimes being spread on the internet. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has said it searched residences in 13 federal states as part of a coordinated operation. One of the largest operations took place in the western city of Koblenz, where the apartments of 12 suspects were searched in connection to two right-wing extremist Facebook groups. The 12 suspects were between the ages of 45 and 68, and were believed to be responsible for the groups called “The Patriots,” and “Our...

Wait, I owe the IRS? The first tax filing season under the new federal tax law is proving to be surprising, confusing - and occasionally frightening - for some Americans, especially those accustomed to getting money back from the government. Take Andy Kraft and Amy Elias of Portland, Oregon. The couple had grown comfortable getting a small refund each year, a few hundred dollars or more. Then they found out they owe $10,160 this year. "I will never forget the moment, I thought 'We look good' and then we added in the next W-2 and my jaw hit the floor,"...

Companies kept up the hiring pace in March, adding 241,000 positions as employment in construction and manufacturing surged, according to a report Wednesday from ADP and Moody’s Analytics. Economists surveyed by Reuters had been expecting the report to show that private payrolls had gained by 205,000. This was the fifth straight month that the ADP/Moody’s count showed private payrolls up by at least 200,000, though March saw a slight decline from the upwardly revised 246,000 in February. On a year-over-year basis, March 2018 nearly doubled the 122,000 total from the previous year. “The job market is rip-roaring,” Mark Zandi, Moody’s...

* Private companies added 241,000 positions in March as employment in construction and manufacturing surged, according to ADP and Moody's Analytics. * The report was well ahead of Wall Street estimates for 205,000 growth and marked the fifth straight month that private payroll growth topped 200,000. * Service providers added 176,000 new jobs while goods-producing industries contributed 65,000. * "The job market is rip-roaring," says Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics' chief economist. Companies kept up the hiring pace in March, adding 241,000 positions as employment in construction and manufacturing surged, according to a report Wednesday from ADP and Moody's Analytics. Economists...