- Prior was 54,750
- Report for the four weeks ending April 11
The NER Pulse is a weekly private-sector employment tracker launched in late 2025 by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. It serves as a high-frequency companion to the long-running monthly ADP National Employment Report (NER), which has delivered snapshots of U.S. private-sector hiring for nearly two decades and is built on anonymized payroll data covering more than 26 million private-sector employees, or roughly 1 in 6 workers in the United States.
ADP positioned the new release as a response to an economy being reshaped in real time by AI adoption, demographic shifts, and short-term business cycle volatility — conditions in which a once-a-month reading can miss meaningful turning points. As ADP Research put it at launch, a lot can happen in a month, and high-frequency data helps distinguish a momentary dip from a genuine trend change.
Methodologically, the NER Pulse estimates the week-over-week change in employment using a four-week moving average, with figures seasonally adjusted and carrying a two-week lag to allow for more complete data. It publishes every Tuesday at 8:15 a.m. ET, except during weeks when ADP Research releases the monthly NER, and includes 12 weeks of historical data.
Recent readings show hiring momentum building. Last week’s release reported a four-week average gain of 54,750 jobs per week — the strongest pace since the survey was first released in September and an extension of a multi-week run of solid private-sector job creation
