ADP Weekly Preliminary Employment Report

Data Employment

Source: ADP
Source Link: https://www.adpresearch.com/
Frequency: Weekly
Next Release(s): February 10th, 2026 8:15 AM

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ADP estimates that private employers added an average of 7,750 jobs in the four weeks to Jan 3rd, mostly unchanged from 8,000 in the four weeks to Dec 27th.
- This morning's ADP Pulse weekly employment print eases slightly to 7,750 but maintains the trend of the last 5 weeks.
- There were no revisions reported in the latest dataset. Next week's data point is the final weekly print before the ADP National Employment Report in the first week of February.
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ADP reports that US private employers added an average of 8,000 jobs per week in the four weeks ending Dec 27th, down from 11,250 in the four weeks to Dec 20th.
- ADP's Pulse data point fell to 8,000 in the four weeks to Dec 27th, the lowest since the week of Nov 22nd, potentially pointing to a new weakening trend in hiring.
- In another show of softness, the last two weekly data points were revised down: Week of Dec 13th revised down from 11,000 to 10,250, week of Dec 20th revised down from 11,750 to 11,250.
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ADP estimates that US private employers added an average of 11,750 jobs in the four weeks to Dec 20th, up from 11,000 in the four weeks to Dec 13th.
- The ADP weekly dataset shows a slight increase in hiring throughout December compared to early November, to an average of about 11,000 jobs added per week by mid-month.
- ADP also revised down two weekly Pulse prints: Nov 29th week revised down from 17,500 to 13,250 and Dec 6th week revised down from 11,500 to 8,750.
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ADP estimates that US private employers added an average of 11,500 jobs in the four weeks through December 6th, easing from 17,500 (revised up from 16,250) in the previous week's estimate.
- Recent revisions to the Pulse data have actually been positive. In today's release, the four prints preceding the most recent one were revised upward by a total of 3,250.
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ADP reports that U.S. private employers added an average of 16,250 jobs per week in the four weeks through Nov 29th.
- While ADP did revise down the data points for the last three weeks, the latest weekly print is the highest in the ADP Pulse series so far and suggestive of a rebound in hiring in the month of November.
- Revisions: 11/8: -11,750 -> -12,000, 11/15: -8,000 -> -9,250, 11/22: 4,750 -> 2,750.
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ADP US private employment increased by an average of 4,750 in the four weeks to Nov 22nd, up from the previous weekly estimate of -11,750 in the four weeks to Nov 8th.
- The ADP Pulse reading of 4,750 jobs added is the highest since the week of Oct 18th, and ends a streak of four straight negative prints.
- The latest preliminary data also revised up the reading for the week of Nov 8th from -13,500 to -11,750.
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For the four weeks ending November 8th, US private employers shed an average of -13,500 jobs per week, down from -2,500 in the previous week's reading.

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For the four weeks ending Nov. 1, 2025, private employers shed an average of 2,500 jobs a week as employment losses slowed heading into November. These numbers are preliminary and could change as new data is added.

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For the four weeks ending Oct. 25, 2025, private employers shed an average of 11,250 jobs a week, suggesting that the labor market struggled to produce jobs consistently during the second half of the month. These numbers are preliminary and could change as new data is added.

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For the four weeks ending Oct. 11, 2025, the NER pulse shows that private employers added an average of 14,250 jobs per week.
- This growth in employment suggests that the U.S. economy is emerging from its recent trough of job losses. Hiring has begun to increase from September levels, albeit slowly and without the positive momentum we saw earlier in the year. This tepid recovery could support economic growth, however, because our run of week-over-week job losses seems to have been relatively short-lived.
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