Move for work earns £2,000

WORKERS may be missing out on a £2,000 pay rise by being unwilling to move to jobs in other regions, a study shows.

The proportion of people heading to other parts of the country for work is down 25% since the millennium.

Yet last year the typical earner who did so not only got a £2,000 pay boost, compared with staying with the same employer, they would also have been £320 better off than those who changed jobs but remained in the same region, the research found.

Stephen Clarke of the Resolution Foundation think-tank behind the study, said: “Job mobility matters not just for the individual but to our economy as a whole.”