Private NFP From ADP

Menzie Chinn
By Menzie Chinn of Econbrowser
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin •

Private payrolls added only 44,000 jobs, missing the 68,000 Bloomberg consensus. This ADP data highlights a cooling labor market as employment levels fall below stochastic trend expectations.

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+44K vs. +68K per Bloomberg consensus.

Figure 1:  Change since 2025M03 in private nonfarm payroll employment from BLS (blue), from ADP (red), 2023M04-2025M03 Stochastic trend (gray line), all in 000’s, s.a. Source: BLS, ADP via FRED.

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