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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Stay Put to Get Paid: Americaโ€™s Labour Market Is Flipping the Script

Jumping ship used to be the moveโ€”now it might just sink your paycheck.

๋– ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋‚จ๋Š” ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ ๋ฒˆ๋‹ค? ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋…ธ๋™์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ฐ˜์ „ ์‹ ํ˜ธ
์ด์ง์ด ํ•ด๋ฒ•์ด๋˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์ž”๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

For over a decade, job-hopping was practically a life hack for ambitious professionals. Leaving a job every 12โ€“24 months often came with a salary bump and a shiny new title. Platforms like TikTok and Reddit turned the practice into a cultural norm. But recent data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta reveals a dramatic shift: for the first time in 15 years, job-stayers are seeing higher wage growth than job-switchers.

์ง€๋‚œ 10์—ฌ ๋…„ ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ง์€ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ๊ณต์‹์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1~2๋…„๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ง์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ์—ฐ๋ด‰ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ฑ™๊ธฐ๊ณ , ์งํ•จ๋„ ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹น์—ฐ์‹œ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‹ฑํ†ก์ด๋‚˜ ๋ ˆ๋”ง์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด์ง์„ ๋ฏธํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์ณ๋‚ฌ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ฏธ ์• ํ‹€๋žœํƒ€ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ํ†ต๊ณ„๋Š” ๋ฐ˜์ „์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 15๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ '์ด์งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค(job-stayers)'์˜ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์ƒ์Šน๋ฅ ์ด '์ด์ง์ž(job-switchers)'๋ฅผ ์•ž์ง€๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Behind this reversal lies a broader labour market cooldown. Unemployment among fresh graduates is rising. The ratio of job openings to job-seekers has returned to pre-pandemic norms. Small businesses are scaling back hiring and salary plans. In short, itโ€™s no longer a sellerโ€™s market for talent.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์—๋Š” ๋…ธ๋™์‹œ์žฅ ์ „์ฒด์˜ ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กธ์—…์ƒ ์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์€ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๊ณ , ๊ตฌ์ธ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ตฌ์ง ๋น„์œจ๋„ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ด์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ์ฑ„์šฉ ๋ฐ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์ธ์ƒ ๊ณ„ํš๋„ ๋šœ๋ ท์ด ์ค„๊ณ  ์žˆ์ฃ . ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๊ตฌ์ง์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • The Great Reshuffle (๋Œ€์ด๋™์˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€)
    A post-pandemic wave of job-hopping driven by remote work and redefined priorities.
    โ†’ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ดํ›„ ์›๊ฒฉ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์™€ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žฌ์ •๋ฆฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ด‰๋ฐœ๋œ ์ด์ง ์—ดํ’.

  • Sticky seat premium (์ž”๋ฅ˜ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„)
    The growing salary advantage for employees who stay in their roles amid market uncertainty.
    โ†’ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง์žฅ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ž„๊ธˆ ์šฐ์œ„.

  • Passive job-seeking (์ˆ˜๋™์  ๊ตฌ์ง)
    Monitoring job opportunities without actively applyingโ€”common among LinkedIn users.
    โ†’ ์ ๊ทน์  ์ง€์› ์—†์ด ๊ธฐํšŒ๋งŒ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ง ํ˜•ํƒœ. ๋งํฌ๋“œ์ธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ํ”ํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

The job marketโ€™s shifting tides reflect a deeper economic cooling. Hiring frenzies of the pandemic recovery period have given way to belt-tightening across sectors. Tech workers were early victimsโ€”hit first by rate hikes, then by AI-induced redundancy. Now the squeeze is broader: even strong payroll numbers mask underlying weakness, with the majority of new jobs concentrated in the public sector.

๋…ธ๋™์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ฐ˜์ „์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํ๋ฆ„์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ดํ›„์˜ ์ฑ„์šฉ ๊ด‘ํ’์€ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋˜๊ณ , ์ „ ์‚ฐ์—…์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ธด์ถ•์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์—…์ข…. ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ๊ณผ AI ๋Œ€์ฒด์˜ ์ด์ค‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋งž์•˜์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ณต ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ๊ณ ์šฉ๋งŒ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ํ‘œ๋ฉด์ ์ธ ์ง€ํ‘œ ์•„๋ž˜ ์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์ง€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

For would-be hoppers, this is a new game. Employers are slower to hire, warier of training investment, and more skeptical of serial movers. The irony? Staying in one place might finally show the kind of commitment companies claim to valueโ€”just as the market stops rewarding it.

์ด์ง์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ํŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฑ„์šฉํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ต์œก ํˆฌ์ž์— ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•œ ์ด์ง์— ์ ์  ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ญ์„ค์ ์ด๊ฒŒ๋„, ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๋ง๋กœ๋งŒ ๋– ๋“ค๋˜ โ€˜์ถฉ์„ฑ์‹ฌโ€™์ด ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์ œ ๋ณด์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์˜จ ์…ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ Job-hopperโ€™s remorse (์ด์ง์ž๋“ค์˜ ํ›„ํšŒ)
โ€œMany professionals are now facing job-hopperโ€™s remorse as switching roles no longer guarantees a pay raise.โ€
๋งŽ์€ ์ง์žฅ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ด์ง์ด ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๊ธ‰์—ฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ '์ด์ง์ž๋“ค์˜ ํ›„ํšŒ(job-hopperโ€™s remorse)'๋ฅผ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ Sit-tight strategy (์ž”๋ฅ˜ ์ „๋žต)
โ€œFor the first time in a decade, the sit-tight strategy is outperforming constant switching.โ€
10๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ณ„์† ์ด์งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค '์ž”๋ฅ˜ ์ „๋žต(sit-tight strategy)'์ด ๋” ๋†’์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ CV fatigue (์ด๋ ฅ์„œ ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ)
โ€œHiring managers are showing signs of CV fatigue, skipping flashy resumes in favor of loyalty.โ€
์ธ์‚ฌ๋‹ด๋‹น์ž๋“ค์€ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์ด๋ ฅ์„œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ถฉ์„ฑ๋„๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๋ฉฐ '์ด๋ ฅ์„œ ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ(CV fatigue)'์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ LinkedIn silence (๋งํฌ๋“œ์ธ ์ •์ )
โ€œThe LinkedIn silence is a clear indicator that job-hopping is no longer in vogue.โ€
'๋งํฌ๋“œ์ธ ์ •์ (LinkedIn silence)'์€ ์ด์ง์ด ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์œ ํ–‰์ด ์•„๋‹˜์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
The Economist and Bloomberg highlight how a once red-hot job market is cooling, especially for job-switchers. Harvard Business Review explores the changing perception of loyalty in hiring, while LinkedIn News reports on user sentiment shifting toward retention. Redditโ€™s career communities are filled with anecdotes of professionals choosing to stay put after failed job moves.

์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ๋ธ”๋ฃธ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์› ๋˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณ ์šฉ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์‹์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ํŠนํžˆ ์ด์ง์ž๋“ค์ด ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋ฒ„๋“œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๋Š” ์ฑ„์šฉ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ โ€˜์ถฉ์„ฑ๋„โ€™์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žฌ์กฐ๋ช…๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋งํฌ๋“œ์ธ ๋‰ด์Šค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์˜ โ€˜์ด์ง๋ณด๋‹จ ์ž”๋ฅ˜โ€™๋ผ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋”ง ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด์ง ์‹คํŒจ ํ›„ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋‹ด์ด ๊ณต์œ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

Sometimes the fastest move is staying still.
๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ธธ์€, ์›€์ง์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… 2025 โ€“ For the first time since 2009, job-stayers are outpacing job-switchers in wage growth.
๐Ÿ“… 2025 โ€“ 2009๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ, ์ด์ง์ž๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž”๋ฅ˜์ž์˜ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์ƒ์Šน๋ฅ ์ด ๋” ๋†’๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "Want higher pay? Donโ€™t change jobs" (The Economist, 2025)

  • "Americaโ€™s job market cools for switchers" (Bloomberg, 2025)

  • "The Loyalty Premium: A HBR Study on Job-Stayers" (Harvard Business Review, 2024)

  • "LinkedIn Workforce Trends: Q2 2025" (LinkedIn News, 2025)

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