
ADP Report: Private Payroll Growth Smallest Since 2003
by:Tom Moeller
|in:Economy in Brief
Summary
The ADP Nat'l Employment Report, reported by the payroll processor, found that private nonfarm payrolls rose just 38,000 last month. The increase was the smallest since 2003.
Last month, ADP's measure of private nonfarm payrolls for July indicated a revised 41,000 increase in jobs that was followed by a 120,000 increase in private nonfarm payrolls.
The ADP National Employment Report data is maintained in Haver's USECON database; historical data go back to December 2000. The figures in this report cover only private sector jobs and exclude employment in the public sector, which rose an average 11,083 during the last twelve months.
The full ADP National Employment Report can be found here, and the ADP methodology is explained here.
LAXEPA@USECON | August | July | Y/Y | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |
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Nonfarm Private Payroll Employment (m/m Chg.) | 38,000 | 41,000 | 1.1% | 1.7% | 1.8% | 1.3% |
Tom Moeller
AuthorMore in Author Profile »Prior to joining Haver Analytics in 2000, Mr. Moeller worked as the Economist at Chancellor Capital Management from 1985 to 1999. There, he developed comprehensive economic forecasts and interpreted economic data for equity and fixed income portfolio managers. Also at Chancellor, Mr. Moeller worked as an equity analyst and was responsible for researching and rating companies in the economically sensitive automobile and housing industries for investment in Chancellor’s equity portfolio. Prior to joining Chancellor, Mr. Moeller was an Economist at Citibank from 1979 to 1984. He also analyzed pricing behavior in the metals industry for the Council on Wage and Price Stability in Washington, D.C. In 1999, Mr. Moeller received the award for most accurate forecast from the Forecasters' Club of New York. From 1990 to 1992 he was President of the New York Association for Business Economists. Mr. Moeller earned an M.B.A. in Finance from Fordham University, where he graduated in 1987. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from George Washington University.