Workers who stay in their jobs seeing larger pay raises

Employees who stay in their current jobs are getting the biggest pay raises in decades, according to The Wall Street Journal.   

Wages for workers who stayed at their jobs were up 5.5% in November from a year earlier, averaged over 12 months, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. 

Employees who changed companies, job duties or occupations saw even greater wage gains of 7.7% in November from a year earlier. The prospect that employees might leave for bigger paychecks is a main reason companies are raising wages for existing employees. READ MORE AT BUSINESS REPORT