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It may be the era of the Big Stay<\/a> or, depending on who you ask, the Great Talent Stagnation<\/a>, in which workers just can\u2019t come up with the skills employers are desperately seeking. But that doesn\u2019t mean those workers are willing to jump ship for just any old job.\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, the salary that Americans say they need to change jobs has jumped to a record $81,822, according to a recent survey<\/a> from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That\u2019s a roughly 8% increase from a year ago and the highest figure in the decade that the New York Fed has been tracking this question as part of its periodic Survey of Consumer Expectations.\u00a0<\/p>\n But pay expectations are very different among different groups of workers\u2014and they are greatest among young, college-educated men who are already making above-average pay, according to the survey.\u00a0<\/p>\n For workers making over $60,000, the lowest pay they say they\u2019ll need to change jobs (known in economic terms as the \u201creservation wage\u201d) is nearly $100,000, almost double the $51,000 workers making under $60,000 say they\u2019d need to jump ship. And male workers put their reservation wage at $95,500, far more than the $66,300 average pay women workers say they\u2019d need.<\/p>\n\n