Private sector employment increased by 192,000 jobs in April and annual pay was up 5.0 percent year-over-year, according to the April ADP® National Employment Report™ produced by the ADP Research Institute® 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. ADP’s pay measure uniquely captures the earnings of a cohort of almost 10 million employees over a 12-month period.
“Hiring was broad-based in April,” said Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP. “Only the information sector – telecommunications, media, and information technology – showed weakness, posting job losses and the smallest pace of pay gains since August 2021.”
JOBS REPORT
Private employers added 192,000 jobs in April
The average pace of hiring has accelerated over the last three months after slowing late last year, almost matching gains made in the first half of 2023. Pay growth continues to slow.
Change in U.S. Private Employment: 192,000
Change by Industry Sector
– Goods-producing: 47,000
- Natural resources/mining 3,000
- Construction 35,000
- Manufacturing 9,000
– Service-providing: 145,000
- Trade/transportation/utilities 26,000
- Information –4,000
- Financial activities 16,000
- Professional/business services 22,000
- Education/health services 26,000
- Leisure/hospitality 56,000
- Other services 3,000
Change by U.S. Regions
– Northeast: 36,000
- New England 14,000
- Middle Atlantic 22,000
– Midwest: 33,000
- East North Central 34,000
- West North Central –1,000
– South: 124,000
- South Atlantic 51,000
- East South Central 28,000
- West South Central 45,000
– West: 11,000
- Mountain 7,000
- Pacific 4,000
Change by Establishment Size
– Small establishments: 38,000
- 1-19 employees 39,000
- 20-49 employees –1,000
– Medium establishments: 62,000
- 50-249 employees 46,000
- 250-499 employees 16,000
– Large establishments: 98,000
- 500+ employees 98,000
PAY INSIGHTS
Pay gains for job-changers slowed in April
Year-over-year pay gains for job-stayers were little changed in April at 5 percent. Pay growth for job-changers fell from 10.1 percent in March to 9.3 percent, but remains higher than it was at the beginning of the year.
Median Change in Annual Pay (ADP matched person sample)
– Job-Stayers 5.0%
– Job-Changers 9.3%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Industry Sector
– Goods-producing:
- Natural resources/mining 4.7%
- Construction 5.9%
- Manufacturing 4.6%
– Service-providing:
- Trade/transportation/utilities 4.7%
- Information 4.4%
- Financial activities 5.1%
- Professional/business services 4.9%
- Education/health services 5.7%
- Leisure/hospitality 5.8%
- Other services 5.7%
Median Change in Annual Pay for Job-Stayers by Firm Size
– Small firms:
- 1-19 employees 5.0%
- 20-49 employees 5.2%
– Medium firms:
- 50-249 employees 5.2%
- 250-499 employees 5.0%
– Large firms:
- 500+ employees 4.9%
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* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
