/EINPresswire.com/ -- ROSELAND, NJ -- (Marketwired) -- 03/30/16 -- U.S. private-sector franchise jobs increased by 22,000 during the month of March, according to the ADP National Franchise Report®. Broadly distributed to the public each month free of charge, the ADP National Franchise Report measures monthly changes in franchise employment derived from ADP's actual transactional payroll data. The report is produced by ADP® in collaboration with Moody's Analytics, Inc. and is published by the ADP Research Institute®.

"Accommodations experienced a second consecutive month of solid growth in March, while Restaurant employment growth bounced back to its nine-month average," said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and head of the ADP Research Institute. "Accelerating wage growth in the workforce may be helping to drive the gains in these two segments."

March 2016 ADP National Franchise Report Highlights

Click here to access the ADP National Franchise Report Infographic

The table below presents U.S. franchise employment growth over time, measuring current month growth, year-over-year changes, and the average monthly growth rate over the past 12 months. This chart also reflects changes in small business employment to help illustrate the correlation between small businesses overall and franchises.

March 2016
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                                              Contribution  Year-
                                       Monthly     to       Over-   12 Month
                  Monthly   Employment  Growth  Monthly     Year    Average
                Employment    Level      Rate    Growth    Growth    Growth
                  Change   (Thousands)   (%)       (%)    Rate (%)  Rate (%)

    Industry
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Total U.S.
 NonFarm Private
 Employment *     200,000    121,487     0.2%               2.1%      0.2%

Small Business
 (1-49
 Employees)       86,000      50,973     0.2%               2.1%      0.2%

Total U.S.
 Franchise
 Employment       22,000      8,324      0.3%     100%      4.1%      0.3%
  Restaurants     20,180      4,331      0.5%      92%      5.3%      0.4%
  Accommodations   1,290       654       0.2%      6%       1.4%      0.1%
  Gasoline
   Stations and
   Auto Repair      910        383       0.2%      4%       -0.1%     0.0%
  Personal
   Services         870        146       0.6%      4%       12.7%     1.0%
  Food Retailers    310        151       0.2%      1%       3.3%      0.3%
  Professional
   Services         270         98       0.3%      1%       2.0%      0.2%
  Auto Parts and
   Dealers          170       1,270      0.0%      1%       6.1%      0.5%
  Rental            110         39       0.3%      1%       2.7%      0.2%
  Manufacturing     20          9        0.2%      0%       1.0%      0.1%
  Personal Care
   Retailers       (20)         77       0.0%      0%       3.1%      0.3%
  Real Estate      (60)         62      -0.1%      0%       1.0%      0.1%
  Education        (90)         59      -0.2%      0%       -1.7%    -0.1%
  Building
   Material and
   Garden
   Equipment       (170)        57      -0.3%      -1%      5.0%      0.4%
  Other            (400)       449      -0.1%      -2%      0.4%      0.0%
  Leisure          (720)        82      -0.9%      -3%      -5.4%    -0.5%
  Business
   Services        (730)       458      -0.2%      -3%      1.0%      0.1%
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* ADP National Employment Report
Note: Sum of components may not equal total due to rounding. Industries are
 ranked based on monthly contribution to Total Franchise Employment

The April 2016 ADP National Franchise Report will be released at 8:15 a.m. ET on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. A schedule of future release dates, as well as additional information about franchise employment, charts on monthly job growth and employment levels, and historical data is available at www.ADPemploymentreport.com.

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Notice of Revisions to the ADP National Franchise Report®

Franchise employment data have been revised to align with the recently
released U.S. Census Bureau's comprehensive count of franchise employment
for March 2012. The Census Bureau produces these data once every five years.
The benchmarking produced a downward level shift of approximately 500,000 to
the employment data; growth rates for the historical series did not
measurably change.
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About the ADP National Franchise Report®
The ADP National Franchise Report®, the first and only report of its kind, is a monthly measure of the change in total U.S. nonfarm private franchise employment derived from actual, anonymous payroll data of client companies served by ADP®, a leading provider of human capital management solutions. The matched sample used to develop the ADP National Franchise Report is derived from ADP payroll data, which represents 15,000 Franchisors and Franchisees employing nearly one million workers in the U.S.

The ADP National Franchise Report is published by the ADP Research Institute®, a specialized group within ADP that provides insights around employment trends and workforce strategy, in collaboration with Moody's Analytics, Inc.

Each month, ADP issues the ADP National Franchise Report as part of the company's commitment to adding deeper insights into the U.S. labor market and providing businesses, governments and others with a source of credible and valuable information. The ADP National Franchise Report is broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge.

For a description of the underlying data and the statistical model used to create this report, please see "ADP National Franchise Report: Development Methodology."

For information about the ADP National Employment Report® and ADP Regional Employment Report® published each month by the ADP Research Institute, please visit: http://www.adpemploymentreport.com/.

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