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Let's take a tour through ADP’s Pay Insights data, which tracks the year-over-year pay change for individual workers each month.
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Liv Wang

Lead data scientist
Liv Ye Wang is a lead data scientist at ADP Research, having joined the team in 2017. She manages company-wide data mining and analytics initiatives, identifying relevant data from client systems and platforms.
Liv is the driving force behind ADP’s monthly Pay Insights report, which mines payroll data to provide a view into the wages and salaries of almost 10 million U.S. workers. She also has conducted research on remote work and the gig economy.
With master’s degrees in economics from Fordham University and CUNY Graduate Center and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Liv now is pursuing a doctorate in economics at CUNY Graduate Center.
Before joining ADP, Liv was an economics intern at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she developed business forecasts for the aviation division. She also taught finance and macroeconomics classes at Hunter College, City College of New York, and Baruch College.

Let's take a tour through ADP’s Pay Insights data, which tracks the year-over-year pay change for individual workers each month.
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February 17, 2026

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