Map of job gains and losses

To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to 2019, Ben Casselman and Ella Koeze for the New York Times use a county map with up and down arrows. Green and up means a gain, whereas orange and down means a loss.

We’ve seen similar maps with arrows, but they’re usually angled or swooped. I guess I always assumed arrows going straight up and down would jumble together, but this seems to work.