Posts tagged as Graphs
Your Handy Guide to Understanding America's Jobs Situation
Do you want to be able to talk knowledgeably at fancy dinner parties with the ruling class about employment in America? Sure you do! So here are just a few simple graphs from our pals at the St. Louis Fed with a longer view—going back to either 2000 or to the early 90s, depending on data available—that explaining the trending in employment, hiring, unemployment and workforce participation in America. Above: what they call the "U6" number. That's the combined percentage of unemployed and underemployed, essentially. READ MORE
Social Media Managers Don't Buy Lunch, They Take It
This graph about the work life of a "social media manager" is horse pucky. "Social media managers" don't go out to lunch—they con an acquaintance at another business into bringing over their own lunch, then they tell all their friends and enemies about how they got the lunch for free, then they live-cast themselves throwing it up later, because puking's just another word for "free viral video." But other than that, it's totally on the money. And also THE WORST. UGH. (via)
2010 and 2011: To What Were We Paying Attention?
I was just asking someone: what was that thing that happened, that then everyone stopped covering/talking about/reading about Haiti? Here's a chart of what we've been giving our eyeballs to over these last 15 months.
Who is the Greatest Diva of the Last 25 Years? We Offer Scientific Proof!
By way of eulogy to the dying animal that is the Diva, my crack team of consultants, statisticians and graphic designers have assembled DIVA-OFF 2010, a highly scientific (we used computers!) evaluation of the greatest divas of the past twenty-five years. A list of divas was evaluated on eleven levels of diva-ness, and, because each diva characteristic is not created equal, we scaled the values in the hopes of creating an aggregate diva number that will serve as a reference point for future generations. READ MORE
How the 'New York Times' Can Barely Cut Costs Fast Enough To Survive
Today the New York Times published a story about its parent company: "Times Co. Posts Operating Profit Gain"! Well, that's... true. (And they mean the second quarter of this year over the second quarter of last year.) But, once again, it's historical context time! If you look back over the last five years, what you see is the newspaper radically chopping its operating costs. READ MORE
Goldman Sachs Overcorrects A Decade of Employee Compensation Trending
For the first time since no one is sure when, Goldman Sachs has altered its general formula of close to a 50/25/25 annual net revenue allocation (in which, give or take, 50% goes to the employees, 25% is (sort of) set aside for taxes and 25% is retained for the company). This year? In what is being described as a PR move, just a bit over 35% is going to bonuses. (2009's net revenue comes to $45.2 billion, so $16.2 billion is set aside for employees.) In the last ten years, the compensation rate has never dipped below 44% of net revenues. READ MORE
A Graphic History of Magazine Income Over the Last Decade
It's an incredible business model to have two entwined yet separate revenue streams. First, you charge people to receive or buy your magazine-and you also sell some of the space inside your magazine to companies that would like to reach your paying readers. It's a brilliant invention! It's also a business that is strongly dependent on the companies that advertise-so when many sectors of business simultaneously fall off a cliff, they can take a magazine down with them. When times get tough, it comes down to a battle of who has the most guaranteed readers. No matter how bad the economy, you can still get the advertisers if you're still getting the eyeballs that you promised you would. Previously we looked at the readership of newspapers, which formed a shocking picture. Now we've gone into the data on magazine advertiser revenue, expressed in ad pages, as well as revenue from readers, in terms of the total annual income from subscribers and newsstand sales. READ MORE
