U.S. Companies Added 213,000 Workers in January, ADP Data Show

Companies added more workers than forecast to U.S. payrolls in January, signaling a healthy start to the year for the job market despite the partial government shutdown.

Private payrolls increased by 213,000 after a downwardly revised 263,000 gain in December, according to data released Wednesday from the ADP Research Institute in Roseland, New Jersey. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 181,000.