{"id":358940,"date":"2026-04-01T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:02:11","slug":"adp-data-shows-62000-private-jobs-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358940\/","title":{"rendered":"ADP data shows 62,000 private jobs added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health and construction carried the load<\/p>\n<p>ADP\u2019s figures showed private employers added 62,000 jobs in March, with goods\u2011producing industries up 30,000 and services up 32,000.<\/p>\n<p>Education and health services contributed 58,000 of those positions, while construction added 30,000.<\/p>\n<p>Trade, transportation and utilities shed 58,000 jobs and manufacturing lost 11,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate sector employment growth was a bit better than expected in March, but health care and construction continued to provide nearly all the momentum,\u201d ADP said in its release.<\/p>\n<p>Small businesses again led hiring, adding 85,000 jobs, while mid\u2011sized firms lost 20,000 and large employers cut 4,000 positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health and construction carried the load ADP\u2019s figures showed private employers added 62,000 jobs in March, with goods\u2011producing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[189448,138,219,111,139,69,5155,104569],"class_list":{"0":"post-358940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-adp-national-employment-report","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-us-economy","15":"tag-us-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}