Private Employers Added 166,000 Jobs In September: ADP

Private Employers Added Fewer Jobs Than Expected Last Month
Unemployed Americans line up as they wait to gain entry to meet prospective employers at the Los Angeles Career Fair on March 23, 2010. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has recently warned jobless Americans they face a torrid year ahead, predicting continued high unemployment levels despite advances 'sometime this spring.' Speaking in Congress, Geithner said some improvements in the decimated US job market would come soon, but not enough to eat into the near double-digit unemployment that has brought the crisis into ordinary Americans' homes. He warned that more than 100,000 jobs need to be created each month to push the jobless rate down from its current level of 9.7 percent. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
Unemployed Americans line up as they wait to gain entry to meet prospective employers at the Los Angeles Career Fair on March 23, 2010. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has recently warned jobless Americans they face a torrid year ahead, predicting continued high unemployment levels despite advances 'sometime this spring.' Speaking in Congress, Geithner said some improvements in the decimated US job market would come soon, but not enough to eat into the near double-digit unemployment that has brought the crisis into ordinary Americans' homes. He warned that more than 100,000 jobs need to be created each month to push the jobless rate down from its current level of 9.7 percent. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. private employers added 166,000 jobs in September, lower than economists' expectations for the month, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.

Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast the ADP National Employment Report would show a gain of 180,000 jobs. August's private payrolls gains were revised to 159,000 from the previously reported 176,000.

The report is jointly developed with Moody's Analytics.

(Reporting by Luciana Lopez; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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