Adapted from core content: ADP National Employment Report
ADP March 2019
Private sector employment gains continued to decline in March from prior months with only 129,000 new non-farm private sector jobs being created according to the March 2019 ADP National Employment Report®. Many sectors reported declines including extremely small employers as well as construction and manufacturing.
Broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge, the ADP National Employment Report is produced by the ADP Research Institute® in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics. The report, which is derived from ADP’s actual payroll data, measures the change in total non-farm private employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis.
The report further elaborates job growth by company size and sector as shown below.
Company Size*
Small businesses: 6,000 (1-19 employees: -9,000, 20-49 employees: 14,000)
Medium businesses: 63,000 (50-499 employees: 63,000)
Large businesses: 60,000 (500-900 employees: 15,000, 1000+ employees: 45,000)
Sector*
Goods-producing: -6,000 (construction at -6,000, manufacturing at -2,000, with only natural resources/mining showing positive numbers at 2,000.)
Service-providing: 135,000 (the biggest of which were Education & Health at 56,000, Professional/business services at 41,000, Leisure & Hospitality at 13,000, Trade/transportation/utilities at 9,000, Information at 11,000, Other services at 6,000 and Financial Activities at -1,000, )
Each month, ADP issues the ADP National Employment Report as part of the company’s commitment to adding deeper insights into the U.S. labor market and providing businesses, governments and others with a source of credible and valuable information. A copy of the complete results for March, 2019 in PDF format may be obtained at this ADP website.
For additional information about the ADP National Employment Report, including additional charts, supporting data and supporting schedules visit the ADP Employment Report website.
*-Be aware that the sum of component numbers reflected above may not equal totals due to rounding.