ADP National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Increased by 140,000 Jobs in February; Annual Pay was Up 5.1%
The jobs report and pay insights use ADP's fine-grained anonymized and aggregated payroll data to provide a representative picture of the private-sector labor market. The report details the current month's total private employment change, and weekly job data from the previous month. Because the underlying ADP payroll databases are continuously updated, the report provides a high-frequency, near real-time measure of
"Job gains remain solid. Pay gains are trending lower but are still above inflation," said
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JOBS REPORT
Private employers added 140,000 jobs in February
While employment growth remained steady, pay gains for job-changers accelerated for the first time in more than a year, rising to 7.6 percent from 7.2 percent.
Change in
Change by Industry Sector
- Goods-producing: 30,000
- Natural resources/mining -4,000
- Construction 28,000
- Manufacturing 6,000
- Service-providing: 110,000
- Trade/transportation/utilities 24,000
- Information -2,000
- Financial activities 17,000
- Professional/business services 5,000
- Education/health services 11,000
- Leisure/hospitality 41,000
- Other services 14,000
Change by
- Northeast: 20,000
- New England 6,000
- Middle Atlantic 14,000
- Midwest: 39,000
- East North Central 32,000
- West North Central 7,000
- South: 37,000
- South Atlantic 35,000
- East South Central -13,000
- West South Central 15,000
- West: 42,000
- Mountain 7,000
- Pacific 35,000
Change by Establishment Size
- Small establishments: 13,000
- 1-19 employees 11,000
- 20-49 employees 2,000
- Medium establishments: 69,000
- 50-249 employees 53,000
- 250-499 employees 16,000
- Large establishments: 61,000
- 500+ employees 61,000
PAY INSIGHTS
Pay gains for job-changers rose in February
For job-changers, year-over-year pay gains were 7.6 percent, up from the prior month and the first increase since
Median Change in Annual Pay (ADP matched person sample)
- Job-Stayers 5.1%
- Job-Changers 7.6%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Industry Sector
- Goods-producing:
- Natural resources/mining 4.5%
- Construction 5.5%
- Manufacturing 4.8%
- Service-providing:
- Trade/transportation/utilities 4.6%
- Information 4.8%
- Financial activities 5.5%
- Professional/business services 5.1%
- Education/health services 5.7%
- Leisure/hospitality 5.9%
- Other services 5.5%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Firm Size
- Small firms:
- 1-19 employees 4.4%
- 20-49 employees 5.2%
- Medium firms:
- 50-249 employees 5.4%
- 250-499 employees 5.3%
- Large firms:
- 500+ employees 5.1%
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* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
The January total of jobs added was revised from 107,000 to 111,000. The historical data file, and weekly data for the previous month, is available at https://adpemploymentreport.com/.
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