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Understanding the chart

Job creation by President from Ronald Reagan (1981) onward. The horizontal axis shows the months following inauguration, while the vertical axis shows cumulative job creation as a %. The number of jobs in a given period is divided by the number of jobs in the first month following inauguration (February) of their first term (Jobs in month N / Jobs in Feb of first term) - 1.

The New York Times published a similar diagram in January 2016.^[1] The source data is the FRED "Payems" data series.^[2]

Calculated risk, a financial and economics blog, does a nice chart like this one as well.^[3]

Fortune did a chart like this in October 2020, using January as starting and ending months.^[4]

CNN did an interactive chart of this and other variables in October 2020.^[5]

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Summary

DescriptionJob Growth by U.S. President - v1.png	English: Job growth by U.S. President, measured as cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of term.
Date	6 January 2017
Source	Own work
Author	Farcaster

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current	20:30, 7 May 2023	1,334 × 754 (135 KB)	Farcaster	Updated through April 2023 data
	20:04, 17 December 2022	1,359 × 769 (71 KB)	Farcaster	Updated through Nov 2022
	03:27, 13 March 2022	1,377 × 794 (129 KB)	Farcaster	Updated for Feb 22; corrected error (Carter was off by one month)
	16:20, 30 January 2022	1,203 × 699 (100 KB)	Farcaster	Updated for December 2021
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	02:18, 7 October 2020	1,310 × 750 (101 KB)	Farcaster	Updated through Sept 2020
	19:17, 5 September 2020	1,372 × 784 (62 KB)	Farcaster	Updated through August
	03:38, 18 August 2020	1,274 × 729 (56 KB)	Farcaster	Update through July 2020 figures
	18:09, 3 July 2020	1,367 × 787 (61 KB)	Farcaster	June 2020 update