How to Use stayer in a Sentence
stayer
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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
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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.
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Medora Lee,
USA Today,
26 May 2026
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This is the primary reason why wage growth for job stayers has eclipsed that for job switchers, said Allison Shrivastava, an economist at the job site Indeed.
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Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
22 Aug. 2025
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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.
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Ana Teresa Solá,
CNBC,
25 Aug. 2025
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At the peak of the Great Resignation in 2022, that same gap was nearly 11 points, with switchers pulling almost 18% wage growth while stayers settled for 7%.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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Wage growth for job switchers and job stayers Conventional wisdom suggests that workers who leave their jobs for new positions experience larger wage growth than those who don’t, but that hasn’t been the case for most of 2025.
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Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
22 Aug. 2025
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BofA cites data from the Atlanta Fed showing that from May through July, wage growth for job-switchers equaled that of job-stayers; the last time this happened was in 2010, during the tepid recovery of the Great Recession.
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Jason Ma,
Fortune,
25 Aug. 2025
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