Wage growth is doing something odd in 2025 — the last time it happened was around the Great Recession

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Job “switchers” typically see their wages grow at a faster rate than workers who stay in their current roles.
However, that trend has reversed for the past six months, since February, data shows.
Such a reversal rarely occurs outside of periods of weakness in the labor market, economists said.

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