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The job-hop raise shrank. For diaspora households, vesting and visas decide the rest.
ADP’s August Pay Insights still show switchers out-earning stayers on gross pay, 7.3% to 4.4%. That gap is a fraction of the Great Resignation peak. For Asian first-gen tech and consulting workers, unvested RSUs, H-1B clocks, and AI mid-career cuts often outweigh a few points of raise.







