On January 13, 2026, the ADP Research Institute released its 2025 employment report. The latter indicates a very slight increase in private sector job growth for the four-week period ending December 20. The corrected number counted as just 11,750 jobs added, an increase of only 250 from the previously revised count of 11,500. This text-based version of our report goes out every week. It provides an indispensable real-time window into the employment landscape, illustrating the prevailing state of the labor market using timely, high-quality data aggregated by ADP.
This week’s report is a welcome extension of good news on job creation across the US private sector. With the start of 2025 now included, the ADP indicator has averaged a net addition of 2,320 jobs added weekly. In November, the labor market matched its historic high of 17,500 jobs. It encountered deep valleys of its own erosion, reaching a blistering low of -11,750 jobs over that same period.
Impact on Labor Market Insights
The ADP weekly report has become a critical piece of the puzzle for gauging the changing dynamics of the overall labor market. Lastly, it only counts private sector employment. This gives our economists and policy makers a narrow, tunnel-visioned view with which to judge our economic health. Although that’s good news because positive growth is hard to come by these days, the current pace of hiring is still quite modest.
The report’s importance goes beyond the numerical. It has an effect on the world’s largest currencies too. The report features a heat map illustrating the percentage increase or decrease in currency values. This visualisation shocks the world to continue providing excellent technical and support! Investors and analysts watch these trends like a hawk to make their bets and build their models.
Looking Ahead
As the labor market remains in an unprecedented transition, stakeholders will be closely watching the ADP report in the next weeks. With new job creation still tracking in the right direction, there’s some reason for optimism that the current recovery can keep humming along. Nonetheless, analysts are on guard for possible dips that may be caused by global economic forces as well as U.S. factors.
The report is refreshingly free from finger-pointing. It’s backward-looking, rather than forward-looking and focused on anticipating future changes to occupations. That data fuels national conversations influencing better employment policies and economic strategies to create more high-growth jobs across all sectors.