Salary offers for new employees have unexpectedly begun to fall, possibly signaling the end of the brief era of considerable wage rise for job searchers. ZipRecruiter, an online recruitment platform, analyzed the yearly salary increases listed for more than 20,000 job postings to draw this result. The data collected by ZipRecruiter shows that, on average, advertised salaries have decreased rather than increased this year. This is in sharp contrast to 2020, when 75% of advertised jobs paid more than the average for the year 2021. In addition, a poll by ZipRecruiter in the month of July found that a startling