The private sector added 90,000 jobs in September, a better-than-expected result, the latest ADP National Employment Report shows.
The increase represented the first acceleration in hiring since May, according to the Wednesday report from ADP and Stanford Digital Economy Lab. It marked a significant upturn after August’s numbers were revised down to a total of 36,000 added jobs.
“It's a strong report,” Nela Richardson, chief economist for ADP, said in a statement. “After a three-month slowdown, job creation rebounded and pay growth remained solid."
Manufacturing added 17,000 new employees, while construction added 15,000 employees. The largest number of new workers, 55,000, fell into education and health services, while mining, financial activities and professional business services shed a combined 28,000 jobs.
Payroll processing firm ADP built its findings by pulling weekly payroll figures from 26 million private-sector employees. ADP's salary database also tracks monthly changes in individual employees' pay.
Employment rose in the mid-Atlantic, West South Central, West North Central and Mountain regions, as well as in New England, while it fell in the South Atlantic, East North Central, East South Central and Pacific regions. Midsized businesses with between 250 and 499 employees added the most new jobs, with 36,000.