A day after the firm sharply lowered its original count for September, ADP and Macroeconomic Advisors, working now with Moody's Analytics, said the service sector once again had a big month for job creation.

Services comprised most of the October total, ringing up 144,000 jobs while the goods-producing sector made up the balance at 14,000.

One change in recent trends was that large businesses were the leading job-creators, accounting for 81,000 of the new positions.

The ADP changeover in the way it was handling its monthly job count created a stir Wednesday when the firm said the original 162,000 new positions reported for September actually came down to 88,200 under the new methodology. (Read More: New ADP Count Slashes Job Creation for September)

That number was changed again Thursday, revised mildly upward to 114,000, close to the government's number for the same month.

"This is very consistent with the job growth we've been getting for the last three months, 12 months, 24 months," Moody's economist Mark Zandi told CNBC.

ADP joined forces with Moody's to compile the report after it had been criticized for regular disparities with the Labor Department's nonfarm payroll report, which follows the ADP count. The new methodology includes a broader count that increases the amount of industries and the total firms included in the sample size.

Economists expect the payroll report to show 125,000 new positions created when folding in government jobs to the count.

Jobless Claims Slip

Elsewhere in the economy, the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, a sign the labor market's slow recovery was gaining traction.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 363,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That was below the median forecast in a Reuters poll of 370,000. (Read More: America's Highest Paying Jobs)

An analyst from the department said New Jersey and Washington, D.C., did not turn in data due to the mammoth storm Sandy, which hit the Northeast earlier this week. The Labor Department estimated results for the state and for the nation's capital.