Employment Archive:
Pay Ratios
16 Oct 2009How long would you have to work to earn as much as a top CEO. This infographic uses three different salaries for comparison (minimum wage, average worker, POTUS).
Best Jobs in America
In: Employment US Economy
14 Oct 2009The graphics are distracting, but the data is interesting.
The well designed map displays unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy, or a composite “stress index”, by county. In the upper right you can change the period the %-change is calculated for (try it, it’s pretty nifty). To look at data over time, click on the “Oct.2007 to present” option and a historical slider will appear at the bottom (very slick to play with). Double click on a region to zoom in; click & hold to move around.
Historical Unemployment (updated)
5 Oct 2009Updated Oct. 09.
Historical Unemployment
2 Oct 2009A nice change from the usual line chart, from the WSJ.
This Time is Different
2 Oct 2009Here is the latest unemployment picture.
NYT Economic Indicators
In: Employment Finance Housing Reference Source: NYT US Economy
2 Oct 2009The NYT has a nice tiny tool that provides the most recent data for 25 economic indicators (housing, employment, production, confidence, etc). It appears at the top of their “Economy” page, and an ugly version of the flash tool can be viewed directly here.
Top 50 Women in World Business
28 Sep 2009From the Financial Times. Click on pictures for roll over details. Filter with the controls on the bottom.
Fun With [Banking] Data
In: Employment Finance Graphic Design (general) Reference US Economy
22 Sep 2009The St. Louis Federal Reserve has an excellent graphing tool called Fred Graph. You can view a variety of economic (not just banking) data over any time period, add/delete series at will, and download the raw data. Below is an example of commercial, consumer, and real estate loans (1940-today); and the same data zoomed in on 2007-today (note the total absence of increased lending). To start, pick a data series from the Fred Page then click on the graph itself to bring up more design options.
Brookings Metro Monitor (Sept 09 report)
21 Sep 2009Brookings is tracking the economic health of 100 USA metro areas using a variety of indicators. Below are the maps for overall performance and REOs (there are more on the site). You can look up summary reports for individual cities. Also interesting are the rankings, which appear in the appendix of the full report.
Not News to Anyone…
21 Sep 2009Two employment graphics from the WSJ:
Financial sector job losses (more spread out than I would have suspected). Related article.
State-by-State, with a timeline slider Dec 07 through August.
One Crisis Later
18 Sep 2009So many data releases focus (correctly) on percentage changes m-to-m or y-to-y; but once in a while it’s useful to look at the actual numbers. Below is the S&P, Employment, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies.
Lehman Diaspora
16 Sep 2009Move the timeline slider and watch former Lehman employees scatter to their new jobs. Click on blocks to see individual stories.
Economic Recovery Dashboard (9/15/09 update)
In: Employment Finance Innovative Interactive Reference Updated regularly US Economy
15 Sep 2009Here is this month’s update of one of my favorite presentations of economic indicators, from Russell Investments. Includes trending, useful popups, drill down links to historical data, and good descriptions of each indicator. It’s really everything an economic dashboard should look like. (ok, maybe they could animate it over time.)
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