Welcome to the government payroll economy. (Hat tip: Tom Iacono, who produced a version of this chart here. To check it, we collect the BLS data and re-ran the figures.) You can get this dropped ...

As can be seen from Chart 1, the establishment and household survey job totals move very closely in line over time, but they are not identical. The nonfarm payroll job series is revised annually and ...

The chart starts at the highest level of non-farm payroll employment at the beginning of each of the 11 post-war recessions as defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research, and then shows ...