ROSELAND, NJ--(Marketwired - Jun 5, 2013) - Private sector employment increased by 135,000 jobs from April to May, according to the May ADP National Employment Report ® , which is produced by ADP® , a leading provider of human capital management solutions, in collaboration with Moody's Analytics. The report, which is derived from ADP's actual payroll data, measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis. April's job gains were revised downward to 113,000 from 119,000.
May 2013 Report Highlights *
View the ADP National Employment Report Infograph at www.adpemploymentreport.com .
Total U.S. Nonfarm Private Employment: 135,000
- By Company Size
- Small businesses: 58,000
- 1-19 employees 37,000
- 20-49 employees 21,000
- Medium businesses: 39,000
- 50-499 employees 39,000
- Large businesses: 39,000
- 500-999 employees 6,000
- 1,000+ employees 33,000
- Small businesses: 58,000
- By Sector
- Goods producing -3,000
- Service providing 138,000
- Industry Snapshot
- Construction 5,000
- Manufacturing -6,000
- Trade/transportation/utilities 31,000
- Financial activities 7,000
- Professional/business services 42,000
* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
The goods-producing sector shed a total of 3,000 jobs in May. Although construction payrolls rose by 5,000 in May, on top of an increase of 8,000 jobs in April, the manufacturing industry recorded a total loss of 6,000 jobs in May.
Service-providing industries added 138,000 jobs in May, an improvement over the April gain of 113,000. However, the gains in May are below the average monthly gain of 156,000 during the first quarter. Among the service industries reported by the ADP National Employment Report, professional/business services added 42,000 jobs added over the month, more than twice as many as in April. Trade/transportation/utilities recorded a gain of 31,000 jobs, while financial activities added 7,000 jobs.
"U.S. private sector employment increased by 135,000 jobs during the month of May 2013, a slight increase over the previous month of April," said Carlos A. Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of ADP. "The majority of new jobs in May came from the service-providing sector, which added a total of 138,000 jobs, while the goods-producing sector recorded a loss of 3,000 jobs. Notably, a gain of 5,000 jobs in the construction industry during May was offset by a decline of 6,000 lost jobs in the manufacturing industry."
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, said, "The job market continues to expand, but growth has slowed since the beginning of the year. The slowdown is evident across all industries and all but the largest companies. Manufacturers are reducing payrolls. The softer job market this spring is largely due to significant fiscal drag from tax increases and government spending cuts."
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Businesses with 49 or fewer employees added 58,000 jobs in May. Employment levels among medium-sized companies with 50-499 employees rose by 39,000, while employment at large companies -- those with 500 or more employees -- also increased by 39,000.
The matched sample used to develop the ADP National Employment Report was derived from ADP payroll data, which represents 416,000 U.S. clients employing nearly 24 million workers in the U.S.
ADP Small Business Report ® : Due to the important contribution that small businesses make to economic growth, employment data that are specific to businesses with 49 or fewer employees is reported each month in the ADP Small Business Report ® , a subset of the ADP National Employment Report .
May 2013 ADP Small Business Report Highlights*
Total Small Business Employment: 58,000
- By size:
- 1-19 employees 37,000
- 20-49 employees 21,000
- By sector for 1-49 employees :
- Goods producing 1,000
- Service providing 58,000
- By sector for 1-19 employees:
- Goods producing 1,000
- Service providing 36,000
- By sector for 20-49 employees:
- Goods producing 0
- Service providing 21,000
* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
Additional information about small business employment, including charts on monthly job growth and employment levels along with historical data, is available at www.adpemploymentreport.com .
To obtain additional information about the ADP National Employment Report, including additional charts, supporting data and the schedule of future release dates, or to subscribe to the monthly email alerts and RSS feeds, please visit www.adpemploymentreport.com .
The June 2013 ADP National Employment Report will be released at 8:15 a.m. ET on July 3, 2013.
About the ADP National Employment Report ® The ADP National Employment Report ® is a monthly measure of the change in total U.S. nonfarm private employment derived from actual, anonymous payroll data of client companies served by ADP ® , a leading provider of human capital management solutions. The report, which measures nearly 24 million U.S. workers, is produced by the ADP Research Institute, a specialized group within the company that provides insights around employment trends and workforce strategy, in collaboration with Moody's Analytics, Inc.
The ADP Small Business Report is a monthly estimate of private nonfarm employment among companies in the U.S. with 1-49 employees and is a subset of the ADP National Employment Report . The data for both reports is collected for pay periods that can be interpolated to include the week of the 12 th of each month, and processed with statistical methodologies similar to those used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to compute employment from its monthly survey of establishments. Due to this processing, this subset is modified to make it indicative of national employment levels; therefore, the resulting employment changes computed for the ADP National Employment Report are not representative of changes in ADP's total base of U.S. business clients.
For a description of the underlying data and the statistical model used to create this report, please see " ADP National Employment Report : Development Methodology" at www.adpemploymentreport.com/docs/ADP-NER-Methodology-Full-Detail.pdf .
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