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.
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.