The ADP Small Business Report®, a subset of the ADP National Employment Report, is a measure of nonfarm private employment, derived from aggregated and anonymous payroll data that represents approximately 270,000 of ADP's 500,000 U.S. business clients and roughly 3.8 million employees working in all 19 of the major North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) private industrial sectors. The ADP National Employment Report was developed to help meet the need for additional timely and accurate estimates of short-term movements in the national labor market among economists, financial professionals, and government policy-makers. Because ADP pays 1-in-6 private sector employees in the United States every pay period across a broad range of industries, firm sizes, and geographies, it has a unique and significant perspective on the U.S. labor market.

The ADP Small Business Report

January 2012 Report

Due to the important contribution small businesses make to economic growth, employment data that is specific to businesses with fewer than 50 employees will be reported in the ADP Small Business Report® each month. The ADP Small Business Report is a subset of the ADP National Employment Report.

  • Total small business employment: +95,000
  • Goods-producing sector: +11,000 jobs
  • Service-providing sector: +84,000 jobs

Private employment among small businesses increased by 95,000 in January, according to the ADP Small Business Report released today.

Release Schedule

Click here for the ADP Small Business Report 2012 release schedule.
Next Month's Report - The February 2012 ADP Small Business Report will be available on this site at 8:15 AM ET on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.