According to the ADP National Employment Report for August, 2026, private sector employment increased by 38k jobs. ADP says private employers posted their slowest pace of job creation since January with manufacturing, professional services, and information shedding jobs. However, education, health care, construction, leisure and hospitality all showed solid hiring. The ADP National Employment Report is an independent and high-frequency view of the private-sector labor market based on the aggregated and anonymized payroll data of more than 26 million U.S. employees.
“Pay can tell us a lot about today’s choppy hiring. To understand hiring patterns, you have to look deeply into where pay growth is accelerating, where it’s slowing, and for whom. Once-predictable wage growth has been overtaken by the complexities of demographic change, persistent inflation, and AI’s effects on jobs.” Said ADP chief economist Dr. Nela Richardson.
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