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5. ADP is a private payrolls processing company, not BLS or other government

Reply to PSPS (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 11:46 AM

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ADP processes payrolls for about 20% of the private work force. They estimate the other 80% by some means described in the URL below. Anyway, they are meant to be an estimate of the national private sector workforce.

https://adpemploymentreport.com/

Click on Technical Notes to expand it:

Nationally representative measure of weekly employment

Seasonally adjusted measure of employment

While I'm at it - I saw a comment in another thread about being positive only because of seasonal hiring ... ADP reports seasonally adjusted numbers (as does the BLS).

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Not so fast ADP. BLS will report 2,000,000 new all white guy jobs added in December. chicoescuela Wednesday #1

Uh, what? Prairie Gates Wednesday #2

Remember that this covers only ADP's customers, not the country as a whole PSPS Wednesday #3

ADP is a private payrolls processing company, not BLS or other government progree Wednesday #5

"Losses of 29,000 in professional and business services and 12,000 in information services." Thanks, AI bros. Bastards. highplainsdem Wednesday #4

Sorry, dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143594195 progree Wednesday #6