ADP National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Increased by 241,000 Jobs in March

March 2018 Report Highlights*

View the ADP National Employment Report Infographicat www.adpemploymentreport.com.

Total U.S. Nonfarm Private Employment: 241,000

By Company Size

• Small businesses: 47,000
• 1-19 employees 35,000
• 20-49 employees 12,000
  
• Medium businesses: 127,000
• 50-499 employees 127,000
  
• Large businesses: 67,000
• 500-999 employees 13,000
• 1,000+ employees 54,000

By Sector

• Goods-producing: 65,000
• Natural resources/mining 5,000
• Construction 31,000
• Manufacturing  29,000
  
• Service-providing: 176,000
• Trade/transportation/utilities 40,000
• Information 3,000
• Financial activities 18,000
• Professional/business services 44,000
• Professional/technical services 27,000
• Management of
  companies/enterprises 3,000
• Administrative/support services 13,000
• Education/health services 28,000
• Health care/social assistance 29,000
• Education  -1,000
• Leisure/hospitality 26,000
• Other services 17,00

* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.

• Franchise Employment**
• Franchise jobs  -100

**Complete details on franchise employment can be found here.

"We saw impressive momentum in the first quarter of 2018 with more jobs added per month on average than in 2017," said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research Institute. "Midsized businesses added nearly half of all jobs this month, the best growth this segment has seen since the fall of 2014. The manufacturing industry also performed well, with its strongest increase in more than three years."

Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, said, "The job market is rip-roaring. Monthly job growth remains firmly over 200,000, double the pace of labor force growth. The tight labor market continues to tighten." 

The matched sample used to develop the ADP National Employment Report was derived from ADP payroll data, which represents 411,000 U.S. clients employing nearly 24 million workers in the U.S. The February total of jobs added was revised up from 235,000 to 246,000.

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 email alerts and RSS feeds, please visit www.adpemploymentreport.com.

The April 2018 ADP National Employment Report will be released at 8:15 a.m. ET on May 2, 2018.

About the ADP National Employment Report^®
The ADP National Employment Report^® is a monthly measure of the change in total U.S. nonfarm private employment derived from actual, anonymous payroll data of client companies served by ADP^®, a leading provider of human capital management solutions.  The report, which measures nearly 24 million U.S. workers, is produced by the ADP Research Institute^®, a specialized group within the company that provides insights around employment trends and workforce strategy, in collaboration with Moody's Analytics, Inc.

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.  The ADP National Employment Report is broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge.

The data for this report is collected for pay periods that can be interpolated to include the week of the 12^th of each month, and processed with statistical methodologies similar to those used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to compute employment from its monthly survey of establishments.  Due to this processing, this subset is modified to make it indicative of national employment levels; therefore, the resulting employment changes computed for the ADP National Employment Report are not representative of changes in ADP's total base of U.S. business clients.

For a description of the underlying data and the statistical model used to create this report, please see the ADP National Employment Report: Development Methodology.

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