There were 158,000 more jobs on private employers' payrolls in March than in February, .
The gain was less than economists expected, . They thought ADP would say there had been a 200,000-jobs increase.
Along with the data from last month, ADP also revised its figures for February and January. There was good and bad news in those changes:
-- "February's [previously reported] gain of 198,000 jobs was revised up by 39,000 to 237,000."
-- "January's [previously reported] 215,000 gain was revised down by 38,000 to 177,000."
The privately produced ADP report comes each month just before the widely watched unemployment and employment data released by the . That agency's March report is due on Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET.
that public and private payrolls grew by 236,000 jobs in Febuary — while the nation's unemployment rate dipped by two-tenths of a point, to 7.7 percent.
BLS will say there were 200,000 jobs added in March and that the jobless rate stayed at 7.7 percent.
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