‘Experience seekers’ and ‘early movers’ boost their earnings through effective career moves

Movement patterns and outcomes of people with more than ten years of work history:

1. Experience seekers start with lower-than-average wages but drive themselves upward by moving roles more frequently and stretching their capabilities.
2. Early movers make bigger leaps in the first part of their career. Someone may start in one field, and then realize that their passion lies elsewhere.
3. Late movers stay put or make more incremental moves in the early stage of their career but eventually take a bolder step.
4. Lock-ins change jobs less frequently because they pursued what suited them from the start.