The ADP National Employment Report is a monthly report of economic data that tracks the level of nonfarm private employment in the U.S. . It is published by Automatic Data Processing (ADP), a company that handles payroll for about a fifth of all privately-employed individuals in the U.S. . The report is based on actual, anonymized payroll data of more than 25 million U.S. employees. The methodology of the ADP National Employment Report is managed by Moody’s Analytics. The report is divided into four separate releases, using figures that are seasonally adjusted. Each report provides information such as a national snapshot showing the change in the number of company payrolls, and also breaks that change down according to business size and sector. The ADP National Employment Report is viewed as a useful preview to the more detailed Bureau of Labor Statistics employment situation report. The ADP National Employment Report is broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge, as part of the companys commitment to offering deeper insights of the U.S. labor market and providing businesses and governments with a source of information.