Recent employment landscape

This graphical movie explores recent job growth, for the 12 major U.S. metropolitan areas.  These cities generally grew less quickly than the rest of the nation, and hence they only accounted for about 30% of the national job growth.  Pasted below are the latest revised comparative data from the Bureau or Labor Statistics.  For example, there were recently 41.9 million workers between these 12 metro areas (up ~600 thousand from a year prior- the allocation of these are on the charts further below.)

Using advanced, non-parametric statistical models against the raw data above, one can now more easily visualize for oneself any geographic and industry opportunity growth patterns, which coincide with these absolute changes in employment (which again the 120 city/industry combinations sum to the net of 614 thousand job gain).

In the data and animations above, we can see that there was annual job losses of several thousand government workers in each of a few East Coast cities, amounting to an outright recession for those people and others in the lower-right cavity of these charts (e.g., colored blue in the bottom-most illustration).  Sample pop-up illustrations below can be used instead, if the movie above is less clear.