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7. From the source:
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 12:04 PM
Wednesday

From the source: https://adpemploymentreport.com/

Click on "Technical Notes" to expand it

Yes, they are seasonally adjusted. I don't have time to look right now if I've found their not-seasonally-adjusted numbers before, presumably would be a big loss for January. If I found them, it was probably at FRED.

Edited to add: I found the FRED series on not-seasonally-adjusted and seasonally-adjusted
Seasonal adjustment turned a 2.171 Million job loss into a 22,000 gain (see #15 below) (/END EDIT)

As BRDS (and the link) says this is private sector payrolls, so government employees are not counted in this.

Private employers added 22,000 jobs in January
. . .
The ADP National Employment Report is an independent and high-frequency view of the private-sector labor market based on the aggregated and anonymized payroll data of more than 26 million U.S. employees.


The other about 80% of the private sector workforce are estimated.

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