ADP: Private Sector Employment Increases in December

According to the ADP National Employment Report released on Wednesday, private sector employment increased by 41,000 jobs in December. Year-over-year, pay rose 4.4%.

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.

Commenting on the report, ADP Chief Economist Nela Richardson said:

“Small establishments recovered from November job losses with positive end-of-year hiring, even as large employers pulled back.”