Wow, zooming out really puts the 2021-2022 hiring frenzy into perspective.
Sort of, that it crosses so many lines makes it seem like it must be 6X, but it peaks at 230 based on a baseline of 100, so just 2.3X their baseline. Still a ton, but not as much as I thought at first glance.
The "edit graph" button reveals some pretty sweet ways to mess with the chart, yet I don't see an option to fix the Y axis at zero. Weird.
Maybe words work better?
There were roughly 28 months' worth of tech job postings within the 15 month period from July 2021 to October 2022.
If you change the baseline to a rough average of the last 2 years, 0.66, that ratio becomes 42 months' worth of job postings within 15 months.
I'd be curious to see what the numbers look like as a percentage of the existing tech workforce. Like, if there are 100 workers and the number of job postings doubled from 5 to 10, that's a huge deal. But if there are 1000000 workers and the number of job postings doubled from 1 to 2, well that's not a huge deal.