Job-hopping staff paid less

Job-hoppers who flit from role to role in search of higher pay are doing it wrong, new analysis has found.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), full-time workers who stayed in the same role last year took home more than colleagues who left for pastures new. Employees who stuck it out received a rise in median earnings of 4.1%, while pay of all full-time employees rose by just 0.1%, the lowest since 1997. The ONS attributed this to “changes in the composition of employees.”

The ONS said that it preferred to use median wage data rather than mean figures, as "it is less affected by a relatively small number of very high earners and the skewed distribution of earnings … It therefore gives a better indication of typical pay than the mean."