United States Adp Employment Change

Last Release

Dec 31, 2025

Actual

Units In

Thousand

-29

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Feb 04, 2026

Time to Release

26 Days 5 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
4,350 Jun 2020	-19,392 Apr 2020	75.57 Thousand	2001-2025	N/A

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.

Latest Updates

Private sector employment in the US increased by 41K jobs in December 2025, following a revised 29K loss in November and slightly less than forecasts of a 47K gain. December brought a rebound in hiring, led by education and health services (39K), and leisure and hospitality (24K). Other job gains were also seen in trade/transportation/utilities (11K), financial activities (6K), natural resources/mining (1K) and construction (1K). In contrast, job cuts occured in professional/business services (-29K), information (-12K) and manufacturing (-5K). Small establishments added 9K jobs and recovered from November job losses. Also, medium companies added 34K jobs and large ones only 2K. Meanwhile, year-over-year pay for job-stayers rose 4.4%, the same as in November. For job-changers, the pace of pay growth accelerated to 6.6% from 6.3%.