Job growth is sluggish, but new hires are on the upswing. How?
Hiring has slowed from earlier in the year, so one would think that new hires would be a shrinking share of the workforce. They're not.
November 18, 2025
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NER Pulse: Hiring slowed for the second week
Education and health services led the slowdown.
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The NER Pulse
For the four weeks ending Oct. 25, 2025, private employers shed an average of 11,250 jobs a week.
November 11, 2025
Meeting the moment: ADP's new labor-market pulse
Starting today, ADP will publish a weekly tracker of private-sector U.S. employment.
October 28, 2025
Creative destruction in the age of AI
Imagine an economy that, for decades, had no growth. These days, the concept of sustained growth is considered commonplace. But it wasn't always this way.
October 21, 2025
Jobs and data: Here’s where the two meet
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released no data because of the government shutdown. So we ended up answer a lot of questions about ADP data.
October 7, 2025
The pay gap is getting bigger
In 2025, the differential between the bottom and the top quartile of earners was nearly 530 percent, a record in ADP data going back to 2019.
September 23, 2025
The job market is telling us something about consumers
Consumers account for two-thirds of economic growth. But let’s not forget that most of those consumers don’t just spend. They also work.
September 16, 2025
Behind the big picture
Last week delivered new evidence that employment has slowed. But there’s more to the job market than the pace of hiring.
September 9, 2025
Nela Richardson, Ph.D.
Chief Economist, ESG Officer, and head of ADP Research
Dr. Nela Richardson is chief economist and ESG officer for ADP Inc. She also leads the independent team at ADP Research, which provides reliable and timely data-driven discovery for use by the public, business leaders, and policymakers.