ROSELAND, N.J., April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Private sector employment increased by 62,000 jobs in April and annual pay was up 4.5 percent year-over-year, according to the April ADP® National Employment Report™ produced by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab ("Stanford Lab"). The ADP National Employment Report is an independent measure and high-frequency view of the private-sector labor market based on actual, anonymized payroll data of more than 25 million U.S. employees.
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 U.S. employment. This measure reflects the number of employees on ADP client payrolls (Payroll Employment) to provide a richer understanding of the labor market. As of January 2025, ADP's Pay Insights measure captures nearly 14.8 million individual pay change observations each month, up from nearly 10 million when it launched.
"Unease is the word of the day. Employers are trying to reconcile policy and consumer uncertainty with a run of mostly positive economic data," said Dr. Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP. "It can be difficult to make hiring decisions in such an environment."
Private employers added 62,000 jobs in April Education and health services, information, and professional and business services lost jobs, while hiring in other sectors was moderate.
Change in U.S. Private Employment: 62,000
Change by Industry Sector
- Goods-producing:26,000
Natural resources/mining 6,000
Construction 16,000
Manufacturing 4,000
- Service-providing:34,000
Trade/transportation/utilities 21,000
Information -8,000
Financial activities 20,000
Professional/business services -2,000
Education/health services -23,000
Leisure/hospitality 27,000
Other services -1,000
Change by U.S. Regions
- Northeast: 10,000
New England -33,000
Middle Atlantic 43,000
- Midwest: 42,000
East North Central 39,000
West North Central 3,000
- South: 3,000
South Atlantic -8,000
East South Central 54,000
West South Central -43,000
- West: 9,000
Mountain 8,000
Pacific 1,000
Change by Establishment Size
- Small establishments: 11,000
1-19 employees 20,000
20-49 employees -9,000
- Medium establishments: 40,000
50-249 employees 21,000
250-499 employees 19,000
- Large establishments: 12,000
500+ employees 12,000
PAY INSIGHTS
Pay gains were steady in April Pay for job-stayers rose 4.5 percent in April from a year earlier, a slight deceleration from March. Year-over-year pay gains for job-changers accelerated, rising from 6.7 percent in March to 6.9 percent in April.
Median Change in Annual Pay (ADP matched person sample)
- Job-Stayers 4.5% - Job-Changers 6.9%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Industry Sector
- Goods-producing:
Natural resources/mining 4.4%
Construction 4.7%
Manufacturing 4.6%
- Service-providing:
Trade/transportation/utilities 4.3%
Information 4.1%
Financial activities 5.1%
Professional/business services 4.3%
Education/health services 4.7%
Leisure/hospitality 4.7%
Other services 4.3%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Firm Size
- Small firms:
1-19 employees 2.8%
20-49 employees 4.2%
- Medium firms:
50-249 employees 4.8%
250-499 employees 4.9%
- Large firms:
500+ employees 4.8%
To see Pay Insights by U.S. State, Gender, and Age for Job-Stayers, visit here.
* Sum of components may not equal total due to rounding.
The March total number of jobs added was revised from 155,000 to 147,000. The historical data file and weekly data for the previous month are available at https://adpemploymentreport.com/.
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The May 2025ADP National Employment Report will be released at 8:15 a.m. ET on June 4, 2025.
About the ADP® National Employment Report™ The ADP National Employment Report is an independent measure of the change in U.S. private employment and pay derived from actual, anonymized payroll data of client companies served by ADP, a leading provider of human capital management solutions. The report is produced by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.
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