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Year over year, older job-hoppers’ wage growth stayed flat or even declined, while stayers’ earnings increased.
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Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 30 May 2026
In the first three months of the year, those in the top 5% by income were the only group where job stayers saw stronger wage growth than job switchers, Bank of America said.
—Medora Lee, USA Today, 26 May 2026
Recent Federal Reserve data shows job stayers now receive 4.6 percent wage increases while job switchers get a measly 0.2 percent bump.
—Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2025
The idea of job switching to grow your income has also flipped — since February, wages for job stayers have outpaced the earnings of job switchers, according to Federal Reserve data.
—Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
While job switching has historically yielded higher pay, recent labor data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta shows that job stayers are now seeing slightly higher wage growth (4.3%) than job switchers (4.1%) - the first time in over a decade.
—Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
The way the stubborn stayers on social media are consumed and recirculated speaks to both society’s rubber-necking and many viewers’ judgments about the posters’ reality.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 30 May 2026
In the first three months of the year, those in the top 5% by income were the only group where job stayers saw stronger wage growth than job switchers, Bank of America said.
—Medora Lee, USA Today, 26 May 2026
Recent Federal Reserve data shows job stayers now receive 4.6 percent wage increases while job switchers get a measly 0.2 percent bump.
—Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2025
The idea of job switching to grow your income has also flipped — since February, wages for job stayers have outpaced the earnings of job switchers, according to Federal Reserve data.
—Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
While job switching has historically yielded higher pay, recent labor data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta shows that job stayers are now seeing slightly higher wage growth (4.3%) than job switchers (4.1%) - the first time in over a decade.
—Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
The way the stubborn stayers on social media are consumed and recirculated speaks to both society’s rubber-necking and many viewers’ judgments about the posters’ reality.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Stayer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stayer. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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