Does being laid off hurt your earning potential when job searching? I was laid off and replaced with someone much cheaper. Since I was laid off this way, will it make it harder for me to get another high paying job?

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It didn’t hurt me I actually increased my salary with the next job after being laid off. I was unemployed for 6 months. Employers understand what it is like out there and layoffs have been happening in bulk. In my opinion it’s not looked down on like it once was because it is so common and with the job market being as tough as it is it is not unusual for someone to be unemployed for months.

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No. I got laid off and I got a better job within 2 months.

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High paying job, maybe not. Higher paying job, maybe.

A wonderful, incredibly intelligent friend was recently laid off, and she should be able to find an equally high paying job, but may not be able to get a significantly higher paying job because things are really hard right now.

It shouldn't and just tell potential employers that you were laid off for budget cuts and leave out the part about being replaced by someone cheaper

In my case, years ago a bad layoff caused a full reset of earnings potential. Most recently 9 years ago, a layoff turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. It sucked being let go but I really should have left a long time before that. From an earnings lens I’m now making about 6x in a great job with a good organization.

The bad layoff had me unemployed for 11 months and I ended up taking an hourly job answering phones in a call center.

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