Residents in work during each mayor's tenure

Every mayor since 1991, ranked by how residents in work changed from their first day in office, next to Iceland over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Mayor	City	In office	Total	vs Iceland	Per year	Chart
1	Dagur B. Eggertsson	Reykjavík	16 Jun 2014 – 16 Jan 2024	+22.3% May 2014 → Dec 2023	−2.6 pts Iceland +24.9%	+2.1%/yr
2	Jón Gnarr	Reykjavík	15 Jun 2010 – 16 Jun 2014	+5.9% May 2010 → May 2014	+0.3 pts Iceland +5.6%	+1.4%/yr
3	Vilhjálmur Þórmundur Vilhjálmsson	Reykjavík	13 Jun 2006 – 16 Oct 2007	+3.9% May 2006 → Sep 2007	−1.0 pts Iceland +4.9%	+2.9%/yr
4	Einar Þorsteinsson	Reykjavík	16 Jan 2024 – 21 Feb 2025	+2.3% Dec 2023 → Jan 2025	−0.1 pts Iceland +2.4%	+2.1%/yr
5	Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir	Reykjavík	21 Feb 2025 – 2 Jun 2026	+0.0% Jan 2025 → May 2026	−0.6 pts Iceland +0.7%	0.0%/yr
6	Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir	Reykjavík	21 Aug 2008 – 15 Jun 2010	−10.1% Jul 2008 → May 2010	−2.4 pts Iceland −7.7%	−5.7%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last month complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Iceland is measured over the same months. Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. thousands, register-based, average of the last twelve months · Statistics Iceland, register-based employment by legal residence (VIN10012): Reykjavík's residents with paid work in the month by the tax authorities' withholding records, averaged over the trailing twelve months (the count swings with the summer season), from 2005; the country's line is the sum of the eight regions · city (the municipality's residents) data · as of Oct 2026.