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Some Americans worry their salaries are too high in today's cooler job market

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published May 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM PDT
(Mark Lennihan/AP)
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(Mark Lennihan/AP)

Americans who switched jobs for better pay during the pandemic are discovering they can’t find comparable offers today.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Wall Street Journal columnist Callum Borchers about the workers who scored massive raises several years ago, only to discover they’re now overpaid in today’s cooler job market.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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