by Calculated Risk on 1/06/2021 08:20:00 AM

From ADP:

Private sector employment decreased by 123,000 jobs from November to December according to the December ADP National Employment Report®. ... The report, which is derived from ADP’s actual payroll data, measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis.

“As the impact of the pandemic on the labor market intensifies, December posted the first decline since April 2020,” said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research Institute. “The job losses were primarilly concentrated in retail and leisure and hospitality.”
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The BLS report will be released Friday, and the consensus is for 100 thousand non-farm payroll jobs added in December. Of course the ADP report has not been very useful in predicting the BLS report.