ADP weekly jobs pulse ticks up to 11,750 for the week ending August 8

The US labor market added an average of 11,750 private-sector jobs during the week ending August 8, 2026, according to ADP’s NER Pulse weekly employment series. That’s up from the 9,500 jobs logged in the prior week ending August 1, a roughly 24% improvement week over week. What the weekly pulse is actually measuring ADP pulls this data from anonymized payroll records covering more than 26 million private-sector US employees, making it one of the broader real-time labor datasets available outside of federal sources. The weekly figure represents a four-week moving average, which smooths out the kind of single-week noise that would otherwise make the data nearly unreadable. To understand why the weekly number looks small, it helps to anchor it against ADP’s own monthly report. In July 2026, ADP reported that private employers added 44,000 jobs for the entire month. Divide that by four weeks and you get roughly 11,000 jobs per week, which means the latest weekly Pulse is actually running in line with the July monthly pace. A volatile year for weekly readings The range of weekly readings this year has been striking. At some points, the Pulse dipped into negative territory. At other poi...