You've been thinking about leaving.
Here's what that's costing you.
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The gap
$6,100 this year
People who changed jobs this year got 6.6%. People who stayed got 4.4%.¹ With your salary range, that's cost you $6,100 this year alone.
You've been deciding for 1 to 2 years. You've spent $12,400 on this decision so far.
In 2025, for the first time since 2010, people who changed jobs earned smaller raises than people who stayed.² The premium didn't vanish. It moved. The people changing jobs that year were mostly the pushed, and the pushed take what they can get.
The risk you're weighing is leaving. The larger risk is being moved before you've decided. 1.17 million layoffs were announced in 2025, the most since 2020.³ Most of those people reached the market with a resume and no narrative.
Personal branding gets you likes. Career branding gets you named in rooms you're not in. Recruiter shortlists are the rooms.
I'm Lianne Stewart, founder of The Narrative Office. I spent almost a decade at Meta shaping executive narratives that got repeated when they weren't in the room.