ADP National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Increased by 177,000 Jobs in August; Annual Pay was Up 5.9%
- Private employers added 177,000 jobs in August.
- Job growth slowed notably last month, driven heavily by leisure and hospitality.
- Job creation by hotels, restaurants, and other employers in the sector fell to 30,000 in August after months of strong hiring.
- Pay growth continued its slowdown in August.
- Job stayers saw a year-over-year pay increase of 5.9 percent, the slowest growth since October 2021.
- For job changers, pay growth also decelerated, to 9.5 percent.
- All 50 states and Washington, D.C., experienced a slowdown in pay growth.
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
"This month's numbers are consistent with the pace of job creation before the pandemic," said Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP. "After two years of exceptional gains tied to the recovery, we're moving toward more sustainable growth in pay and employment as the economic effects of the pandemic recede."
August 2023 Report Highlights*
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JOBS REPORT
Private employers added 177,000 jobs in August
Job growth slowed notably last month, driven heavily by leisure and hospitality. Job creation by hotels, restaurants and other employers in the sector fell to 30,000 in August after months of strong hiring.
Change in
Change by Industry Sector
- Goods-producing: 23,000
- Natural resources/mining 5,000
- Construction 6,000
- Manufacturing 12,000
- Service-providing: 154,000
- Trade/transportation/utilities 45,000
- Information 5,000
- Financial activities 0
- Professional/business services 15,000
- Education/health services 52,000
- Leisure/hospitality 30,000
- Other services 7,000
Change by
- Northeast: 59,000
- New England -3,000
- Middle Atlantic 62,000
- Midwest: -15,000
- East North Central -11,000
- West North Central -4,000
- South: 119,000
- South Atlantic 54,000
- East South Central 7,000
- West South Central 58,000
- West: 13,000
- Mountain 26,000
- Pacific -13,000
Change by Establishment Size
- Small establishments: 18,000
- 1-19 employees 1,000
- 20-49 employees 17,000
- Medium establishments: 79,000
- 50-249 employees 74,000
- 250-499 employees 5,000
- Large establishments: 83,000
- 500+ employees 83,000
PAY INSIGHTS
Pay growth continued its slowdown in August
Job stayers saw a year-over-year pay increase of 5.9 percent, the slowest growth since October 2021. For job changers, pay growth also decelerated, to 9.5 percent. For the first time, all 50 states and
Median Change in Annual Pay (ADP matched person sample)
- Job-Stayers
5.9% - Job-Changers
9.5%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Industry Sector
- Goods-producing:
- Natural resources/mining
5.9% - Construction
6.0% - Manufacturing
5.5%
- Service-providing:
- Trade/transportation/utilities
5.8% - Information
5.4% - Financial activities
6.2% - Professional/business services
5.8% - Education/health services
6.5% - Leisure/hospitality
6.9% - Other services
5.8%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Firm Size
- Small firms:
- 1-19 employees
5.1% - 20-49 employees
6.0%
- Medium firms:
- 50-249 employees
6.2% - 250-499 employees
6.0%
- Large firms:
- 500+ employees
6.0%
To see Pay Insights by
* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
The July total of jobs added was revised from 324,000 to 371,000. The historical data file, and weekly data for the previous month, is available at https://adpemploymentreport.com/.
ADP conducted a rebenchmarking of its employment data in August based on full-year 2022 results from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). This resulted in 7,000 jobs being added to the August ADP National Employment Report. ADP's full-year benchmarking will take place in February 2024 with the publication of the January 2024 report.
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The September 2023 ADP National Employment Report will be released at 8:15 a.m. ET on October 4, 2023.
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