ADP National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Increased by 324,000 Jobs in July; Annual Pay was Up 6.2%
- Private sector employment increased by 324,000 jobs in July, a positive sign for the labor market and the economy as a whole. The annual pay increase of 6.2% year-over-year indicates a healthy trend in wage growth. Job creation remained robust, with leisure and hospitality driving growth, while manufacturing saw a decrease in jobs for the fifth straight month. The Northeast region saw the highest job growth, while the South experienced a decrease in employment.
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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
"The economy is doing better than expected and a healthy labor market continues to support household spending," said Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP. "We continue to see a slowdown in pay growth without broad-based job loss."
July 2023 Report Highlights*
View the ADP National Employment Report and interactive charts at www.adpemploymentreport.com.
JOBS REPORT
Private employers added 324,000 jobs in July
Job creation remained robust in July, with leisure and hospitality again driving growth. One weakness was manufacturing, an interest rate-sensitive industry that shed jobs for the fifth straight month.
Change in
Change by Industry Sector
- Goods-producing: 21,000
- Natural resources/mining 48,000
- Construction 9,000
- Manufacturing -36,000
- Service-providing: 303,000
- Trade/transportation/utilities 30,000
- Information 36,000
- Financial activities -5,000
- Professional/business services 5,000
- Education/health services 12,000
- Leisure/hospitality 201,000
- Other services 24,000
Change by
- Northeast: 276,000
- New England 114,000
- Middle Atlantic 162,000
- Midwest: 129,000
- East North Central 68,000
- West North Central 61,000
- South: -144,000
- South Atlantic -87,000
- East South Central -34,000
- West South Central -23,000
- West: 55,000
- Mountain 8,000
- Pacific 47,000
Change by Establishment Size
- Small establishments: 237,000
- 1-19 employees 114,000
- 20-49 employees 123,000
- Medium establishments: 138,000
- 50-249 employees 152,000
- 250-499 employees -14,000
- Large establishments: -67,000
- 500+ employees -67,000
PAY INSIGHTS
Pay growth continued downward trend in July
Job stayers saw a year-over-year pay increase of 6.2 percent, the slowest pace of gains since November 2021. For job changers, pay growth slowed to 10.2 percent.
Median Change in Annual Pay (ADP matched person sample)
- Job-Stayers
- Job-Changers
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Industry Sector
- Goods-producing:
- Natural resources/mining
6.2% - Construction
6.4% - Manufacturing
5.7%
- Service-providing:
- Trade/transportation/utilities
6.0% - Information
5.5% - Financial activities
6.4% - Professional/business services
6.0% - Education/health services
6.7% - Leisure/hospitality
7.2% - Other services
6.1%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Firm Size
- Small firms:
- 1-19 employees
5.2% - 20-49 employees
6.2%
- Medium firms:
- 50-249 employees
6.4% - 250-499 employees
6.2%
- Large firms:
- 500+ employees
6.2%
To see Pay Insights by
* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
The June total of jobs added was revised from 497,000 to 455,000. The historical data file, and weekly data for the previous month, is available at https://adpemploymentreport.com/.
With each January release, the ADP National Employment Report is benchmarked with employment counts from the March Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). In addition to the annual benchmark, the forthcoming ADP National Employment Report release on August 30, 2023 will provide a preliminary benchmark revision based on the fourth-quarter 2022 data from the QCEW, as released June 7, 2023. The comprehensive benchmark revision will be issued with the publication of the January 2024 ADP National Employment Report news release in February 2024.
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