"We are continuing to see steady job gains," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP. Annual pay was up 7.8 percent year over year, the report noted.
"While job stayers saw a pay increase, annual pay growth for job changers in September is down from August," said Richardson. The annual pay for job changers rose 15.7 percent, down from a revised 16.2 percent gain in August.
Job growth totaled 185,000 in August, slowing for a second straight month after a gain of nearly 270,000 jobs in July, the report showed.
In September, the goods-producing sector lost 29,000 jobs, with a decline of 13,000 jobs in manufacturing. In the service-providing sector, 237,000 jobs were added, with declines in information (-19,000) and financial activities (-16,000), the report showed.
Meanwhile, the number of job openings in the United States fell by 6.2 percent to 10.1 million by the end of August, indicating a cooling labor market amid rising interest rates and slower economic growth, the U.S. Labor Department reported Tuesday.
The largest decreases in job openings were in health care and social assistance (-236,000), other services (-183,000), and retail trade (-143,000), the report showed.
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