How can jQuery's click() function be so much faster than addEventListener()?

I'm sure we've all seen the site for vanilla-js (the fastest framework for JavaScript) ;D and I was just curious, exactly how much faster plain JavaScript was than jQuery at adding an event handler for a click. So I headed on over to jsPerf to test it out and I was quite surprised by the results.

jQuery outperformed plain JavaScript by over 2500%.

My test code:

//jQuery
$('#test').click(function(){
  console.log('hi');
});

//Plain JavaScript
document.getElementById('test').addEventListener('click', function(){
  console.log('hi');
});

I just can't understand how this would happen because it seems that eventually jQuery would end up having to use the exact same function that plain JavaScript uses. Can someone please explain why this happens to me?