ADP National Employment Report Shows U.S. Added 130,000 Private Sector Jobs in January
ROSELAND, New Jersey (January 30, 2008) – According to today’s ADP National Employment Report(SM), private sector employment increased by 130,000 in January. The ADP National Employment Report, created by ADP® Employer Services, a division of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), in partnership with Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, is based on actual payroll data and measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month.
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Nonfarm Private Employment Highlights — January Report:
— Total employment: +130,000
— Small businesses* +70,000
— Medium businesses** +52,000
— Large businesses*** +8,000
— Goods-producing sector: -11,000
— Service-providing sector: +141,000
Addendum:
— Manufacturing industry: 0
* Small businesses represent payrolls with 1-49 employees
** Medium businesses represent payrolls with 50-499 employees
*** Large businesses represent payrolls with more than 499 employees
According to Joel Prakken, Chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, “Nonfarm private employment grew 130,000 from December 2007 to January of 2008 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report. January’s increase of 130,000 is consistent with nonfarm private employment growth that averaged 110,000 during the three-month period from October through December 2007.”
Prakken added, “Employment in the service-providing sector of the economy grew 141,000, while employment in the goods-producing sector declined 11,000, the fourteenth consecutive monthly decline. Manufacturing employment in January was flat after eighteen consecutive monthly declines.”
“Small- and medium-size businesses, defined as those employing fewer than 500 workers, more than accounted for the increase in total employment in January, adding 122,000 jobs. Employment among larger companies with 500 workers or more increased 8,000,” said Prakken.
Prakken went on to say, “Two sectors of the economy hit hardest by recent problems in mortgage markets have been residential construction and financial activities related to home sales and mortgage lending. In January, construction employment fell 13,000. This is the fourteenth consecutive monthly decline, bringing the total decline in construction jobs since the peak in August 2006 to 215,000. Employment in financial activities increased 1,000.”
The matched sample used to develop the ADP National Employment Report was derived from ADP data which, during the last six months of 2007, averaged approximately 392,000 payrolls representing nearly 24 million U.S. employees. This approximately represents the size of the matched sample used this month.
Notice of Intent to Make Annual Revisions to the ADP National Employment Report(TM)
On February 21, 2008, Automatic Data Processing, Inc, in conjunction with Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, will publish annual revisions of the estimates of employment shown in the ADP National Employment Report.
These will reflect:
* Updated regression estimates used to adjust for historical differences in the variances of the monthly growth rates of employment reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and computed from the ADP data.
* Updated estimates of the differences in the historical averages of the growth rates of employment reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and computed from the ADP data.
* Updated estimates of historical seasonal factors.
* The reference month for establishing the levels of employment shown in the ADP National Employment Report will be advanced from March of 2006 to March of 2007.
There will be no revisions to the methodology of computing the estimates of employment shown in the ADP National Employment Report.
Small Business Highlights — January Report:
Due to the important contribution small businesses make to economic growth, employment data that is specific to businesses with fewer than 50 employees will be reported in the ADP Small Business Report(SM) each month. The ADP Small Business Report is a subset of the ADP National Employment Report.
* Total small business employment: +70,000
* Goods-producing sector: -2,000 small business jobs
* Service-providing sector: +72,000 small business jobs
Private employment among small businesses increased by 70,000 in January, according to the ADP Small Business Report released today. Additional information about small business employment, including charts on monthly job growth and employment levels, along with historical data, is available at http://www.smallbusinessreport.adp.com.
“Small businesses accounted for the majority of the increase in total employment in January, adding 70,000 jobs,” said Joel Prakken. “Small businesses are continuing to show the solid growth that made them the main driver of employment during 2007. In twelve of the past thirteen months, small businesses added more jobs than medium- and large-size businesses combined.”
To obtain additional information about the ADP National Employment Report, including additional charts, supporting data and the schedule of future release dates, or to subscribe to the monthly e-mail alerts and RSS feeds, please visit www.ADPemploymentreport.com. The February 2008 ADP National Employment Report will be released on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 8:15 a.m. ET.
Source: ADP
