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Private-sector employment increased by 216,000 from January to February on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report® released today. The ADP National Employment Report, created by Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP®), in partnership with Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, is derived from actual payroll data and measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month. The estimated gain in employment from December to January was revised up slightly to 173,000 from the initially reported 170,000.

 U.S. Nonfarm Private Employment Highlights -- February 2012 Report:

 --    Total employment:                 +216,000

 --    Small businesses:*                +108,000
 --    Medium businesses:**              +88,000
 --    Large businesses:***              +20,000

 --    Goods-producing sector:           + 46,000

 --    Service-providing sector:         +170,000

Addendum:
 --    Manufacturing industry:           + 21,000

 * Small businesses represent payrolls with 1-49 employees
 ** Medium businesses represent payrolls with 50-499 employees
 *** Large businesses represent payrolls with more than 499 employees
 Note: All data included in the ADP National Employment Report is based on
        size of payroll.In some cases, small and medium-size payrolls
        belong to businesses employing more workers than indicated by the
        size grouping.

According to today's ADP National Employment Report, employment in the nonfarm private business sector rose 216,000 from January to February on a seasonally adjusted basis. Employment in the private, service-providing sector increased 170,000 in February, after rising a revised 149,000 in January. Employment in the private, goods-producing sector rose 46,000 in February. Manufacturing employment increased 21,000, while construction employment advanced 16,000 and the financial services sector added 14,000 jobs during that period.

"This month's employment gains in The ADP National Employment Report continue to be solid, with job growth averaging just over 200,000 for the past five months," said Carlos Rodriguez, President and CEO of ADP. "Also, for February, virtually every sector of the economy added jobs -- something I hope will continue for the rest of 2012."

According to Joel Prakken, Chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, "The last three monthly gains in employment shown in the ADP National Employment Report have averaged 223,000, compared to 156,000 per month over all of 2011. This pick-up is consistent with the recent acceleration of the nation's gross domestic product which, in the fourth quarter, grew at the fastest pace (3.0 percent) since second quarter of 2010.

February's increase marks the twenty-fifth consecutive monthly gain in private employment as measured in the ADP Report and suggests that the national unemployment rate may have declined slightly last month," Prakken said.

Prakken continued: "Conditions continue to improve at a moderate pace and are consistent with other indicators suggesting some firming of the labor market.

"Employment grew in all the major sectors of the economy tracked in The Report, and across payrolls of all sizes. Employment on medium payrolls -- those with 50 to 499 workers -- rose 88,000 in February. Employment on large payrolls -- those with 500 or more workers -- increased 20,000 during that same period," Prakken noted.

The matched sample used to develop the ADP National Employment Report was derived from ADP data, which, during 2011, averaged about 344,000 U.S. business clients and represented over 21 million U.S. employees. This approximately represents the size of the matched sample used this month.

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 Notice of Annual Revisions to the ADP National Employment Report®

 Automatic Data Processing, Inc., in conjunction with Macroeconomic
 Advisers, LLC, has published the scheduled annual revisions to the
 estimates of employment shown in the ADP National Employment Report.
 Revisions include:

   --  Updated regression estimates used to adjust for historical
       differences in the variances of the monthly growth rates of
       employment reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and computed
       from the ADP data.
   --  Updated estimates of the differences in the historical averages of
       the growth rates of employment reported by the Bureau of Labor
       Statistics and computed from the ADP data.
   --  Updated estimates of historical seasonal factors.
   --  The reference month for establishing the levels of employment shown
       in the ADP National Employment Report advanced from March of 2010 to
       March of 2011.

 Note: These revisions are published in accordance with the previously
  stated schedule of annual benchmark revisions to the ADP Report. No
  revisions have been made to the methodology of computing the estimates of
  employment shown in the ADP National Employment Report. Visit
  http://www.adpemploymentreport.com for details.
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Small Business Highlights -- February Report: Due to the important contribution small businesses make to economic growth, employment data that is specific to businesses with fewer than 50 employees is reported in the ADP Small Business Report® each month. The ADP Small Business Report is a subset of the ADP National Employment Report.*

Employment on small payrolls -- those with up to 49 workers -- rose 108,000 in February. Service-providers created more than three times the number of jobs than goods-producers.

• Total nonfarm private small business employment: 108,000 jobs created
  • Goods-producing sector: 18,000 small business jobs created
  • Service-providing sector: 90,000 small business jobs created

*All size data included in the ADP National Employment Report is based on size of payroll. In some cases, small and medium-size payrolls belong to businesses employing more workers than indicated by the size grouping.

Additional information about small business employment, including charts on monthly job growth and employment levels, along with historical data, is available at http://www.smallbusinessreport.adp.com.

To obtain additional information about the ADP National Employment Report, including additional charts, supporting data and the schedule of future release dates, or to subscribe to the monthly email alerts and RSS feeds, please visit www.ADPemploymentreport.com.

The March 2012 ADP National Employment Report will be released April 4, 2012 at 8:15 AM ET.

About the ADP National Employment Report® The ADP National Employment Report®, sponsored by ADP®, was developed and is maintained by Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC. It is a measure of employment derived from an anonymous subset of roughly 500,000 U.S. business clients. During 2011, this subset averaged about 344,000 U.S. business clients and represented over 21 million U.S. employees working in all private industrial sectors. The ADP Small Business Report is a monthly estimate of private nonfarm employment among companies in the United States with 1-49 employees and is a subset of the ADP National Employment Report. The data for both reports is collected for pay periods that can be interpolated to include the week of the 12th of each month, and processed with statistical methodologies similar to those used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to compute employment from its monthly survey of establishments. Due to this processing, this subset is modified to make it indicative of national employment levels; therefore, the resulting employment changes computed for the ADP National Employment Report are not representative of changes in ADP's total base of U.S. business clients.

For a description of the underlying data and the statistical properties of the series, please see "ADP National Employment Report: Development Methodology" at http://ADPemploymentreport.com/methodology.aspx.

About ADP Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP), with about $10 billion in revenues and approximately 570,000 clients, is one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Leveraging over 60 years of experience, ADP offers a wide range of human resource, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. ADP's easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to companies of all types and sizes. ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine, recreational vehicle, and heavy equipment dealers throughout the world. For more information about ADP or to contact a local ADP sales office, reach us at 1.800.225.5237 or visit the company's Web site at www.ADP.com.

About Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC (MA) has been the most trusted source for U.S. macroeconomic forecasts and commentary, monetary and fiscal policy analysis, and econometric modeling for 25 years. MA's clients include leading financial service firms, nonfinancial corporations, key policymaking agencies of the U.S. government, as well as State and Foreign Government agencies. Additional information on Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC is available on the company's website, www.MacroAdvisers.com.

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