Private sector employment increased by 104,000 jobs in July 2025 and pay was up 4.4 percent year-over-year according to the July ADP National Employment Report® produced by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab (“Stanford Lab”).
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The ADP National Employment Report is an independent measure of the labor market based on the anonymized weekly payroll data of more than 25 million private-sector employees in the United States. ADP’s Pay Insights captures nearly 14.8 million individual pay change observations each month. Together, the jobs report and pay insights use ADP’s fine-grained data to provide a representative and high-frequency picture of the private-sector labor market.