Salaries

The 14 Highest Paid Public College Presidents

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.30.2012

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Public universities may be suffering disinvestment from state governments, but their presidents are still taking home hefty salaries. According to ...

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Highest-Paid Sports Stars Of All Time

24/7 Wall St. | Baxter B. Allen, Ashley C. Allen, Michael B. Sauter | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Salaries, Wayne Gretzky, Kobe Bryant, Nfl, Inflation, Joe Sakic, 24/7 Wall St., Mlb, Athletes, Nhl, Kevin Brown, Alex Rodriguez, Nba, Babe Ruth, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: On March 8th, Peyton Manning is set to make $28 million from the Indianapolis Colts, the highest amount ever paid to an NFL athlet...

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Why I Told My Daughter to Quit Her Job

Holly Robinson | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Salaries, Quitting a Job, Unemployment, Empty Nesters, Life Choices, Economy, Living Wage, Careers, Career Counseling, College Majors, Parenting, Business, Job Market Statistics, College Graduates, Adult Children, College News

My daughter is the poster child for why college matters. She did everything right, and lo and behold, the system worked. Slowly, though, things unraveled.

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'Nonprofit' Means Personal Wealth For CEOs

The Huffington Post | Max Rosenthal | Posted 12.20.2011

WASHINGTON -- The chief executives of major companies are frequently blasted for their massive salaries, but new reports show that the heads of the na...

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Gender Pay Gap, Once Closing, Largely Stagnates During Economic Slowdown

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Salaries, Video, Education, Low Wages, Gender Discrimination, Women Pay, Low-Income, Wages, Gender Pay Gap, Low Income, Men Pay, Business News

Though the share of women participating in the low-wage workforce has declined in the past three decades, it's remained relatively stagnant for the la...

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Top Harvard Official Rakes In $6.4 Million A Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Hayley Miller | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Boston University, Salaries, Video, Boston College, Harvard University, College, Income Inequality, Northeastern University, Mit, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Top-level college executives are enjoying rising pay packages, often exceeding $1 million annually, even as students are facing ever-hig...

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Don't Pay College Athletes

Lesley Ryder | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Ncaa, Salaries, College Football, College Basketball, College Athletes, Professional-College-Athletes, Pay College Athletes, Paid College Athletes, Sports News

College athletes will never be paid a salary to play for their school. There are far too many logistical, economic and legal hurdles that would have to disappear before paying students could even become a reality.

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Gadhafi Sold Libya Gold To Pay Uprising Salaries

AP | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Salaries, Libya, Gold Reserves, Arab Spring, Libya Central Bank, Moammar Gadhafi, Gold, U.N. Sanctions, Libya Uprising, Banking Sector, Video, Business News

TRIPOLI, Libya -- The new governor of Libya's central bank says the former regime sold about 20 percent of the country's gold reserves to cover salari...

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Congress Must Eliminate Its Own Pensions, Reduce Its Salaries -- Before Cutting a Dime From Middle Class Entitlements

Paul Abrams | Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: Healthcare Providers, Salaries, Gym Memberships, Congress, Poor, Healthcare, Middle Class, Pensions, Codels, Congressional Salaries, Social Security, Budget Cuts, Social Safety Nets, Politics News

Dear Members of Congress: You pay yourselves a whopping $174,000 per year, and healthcare and nice cushy pensions. Sorry, girls and boys, but we cannot afford it anymore.

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Morgan Stanley Reports Loss In Second Quarter

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Morgan Stanley Earnings, Salaries, Investment Bank, Quarterly Earnings, Banks Earnings, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Morgan Stanley Loss, Financial Sector, Mitsubishi, Bonuses, Business News

NEW YORK - Morgan Stanley is reporting a loss $558 million for the second quarter. The investment banks' earnings took a hit from converting an invest...

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Owning a Sports Team Turns Capitalists Into Socialists

Larry Hirsch | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Salaries, Sports Owners, Sports News

Most owners of professional sports teams have gotten that way by being successful capitalists. They have made a lot of money in business that allows t...

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The Emergence of the Alpha-Wife and Breadwinner

Kristen Houghton | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Strong Women, Women's Empowerment, Marriage, Salaries, Trophy Wife, Men, Careers, Alpha-Wife, Career & Money, Women Breadwinners, Love & Sex, Women News

In the past men were considered a good catch if they were high earners and a woman who was married to one was considered to have done well for herself. Now this same attitude applies to top-earning women and the men who marry them.

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Saab Attempts To Avoid Bankruptcy With Big Property Deal

AP | By LOUISE NORDSTROM | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Saab, Salaries, Debt, Spyker Cars, Swedish National Debt Office, General Motors, Hemfosa, Saab Automobile Property, Car Makers, Jobless, Swedish Automobile, European Investment Bank, Property, Business News

STOCKHOLM -- Crisis-hit car maker Saab has struck a $40 million deal to sell and lease back property in an effort to improve its ailing finances that ...

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Executive Compensation's New Normal: A Missed Opportunity

Ed Lawler | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Earnings, Financial Performance, Sustainability, Executive Compensation, Executive Pay, Salaries, Executive Salaries, Compensation, Stock Options, Executive Bonuses, Economic Sustainability, Bonuses, Executive Stock Options, Business News

Executive pay in the U. S. skyrocketed to reach an all time high in 2010. Looking ahead, we will likely find that the pay distance between executives and the rest of their organizations has gotten even greater.

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Some Federal Food Service Workers Make More Than State Governors

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.06.2011

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Despite the political power, governors aren't always the most well-paid government employees in their state. In fact, a recent report from the Con...

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Newport Beach Lifeguards Earn More Than Some Corporate Executives

The Washington Post | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Overtime Pay, Public Safety Employees, Budget-Watchers, Salaries, Benefits, Beachgoers, Pension Costs, Overpaid, Fire Captains, Lifeguards, Facebook, Battalion Chiefs, Business News

(AP) NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. Aurora Toussaint brings her disabled son to the sun-kissed beaches of this Southern California city almost every day in the...

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Consumer Confidence Hits 3-Year High

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salaries, Consumer Confidence, Unemployment, Poll, IHS Global Insight, Middle East, Chris Christopher, Housing Markets, Jobs, Consumer Confidence High, Consumer Sentiment, Food Prices, Fuel Prices, Income, Business News

U.S. consumers are more confident than they've been in three years, according to the data released today by the Conference Board. The organization's ...

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Workplace Etiquette: Be Your Best at Work

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 05.25.2011

Treating your colleagues with respect can gain you a winning edge and create a win-win situation for everyone at the office. Here are some basic rules of etiquette in the office and at office parties.

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8 Jobs Where Women Make MORE Than Men (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 07.14.2010

Read More: Salaries, Gender Wage Gap, Wages, Jobs, Gender, Gender Discrimination, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Slidepollajax, Occupations, Careers for Women, Business News

Working women unite -- the June report on women's earnings, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this month, doesn't indicate any earth-shatteri...

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Government Workers Earn $12 MORE Per Hour Than Their Private Counterparts

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salaries, Government Jobs, Private Sector Job Growth, Private Sector Jobs, Unemployment, Jobs, Employment, Business News

Government jobs may not sound lucrative, but state and local government employees make $12 more per hour than private workers, according to a recent r...

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Women Sue Bank of America: Three Female Employees Allege Discrimination, 'Second Class' Status

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Class Citizens, Salaries, Women, Court, Women's Rights, Pay, Pay Discrimination, Opportunity, Bank of America, Men, Compensation, Bofa, Lawsuit, Gender, Merrill Lynch, Workplace, Male Employees, Lunches, Expense Accounts, Wall Street, Inequality, Business News

NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. and Merrill Lynch have made female employees "second-class citizens" by purposely giving their male counterpart...

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America's Lowest-Paying Jobs (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salaries, Counter Attendants, Concession Stand, Low-Pay, Worst-Paying-Jobs-Payscale, Shampooers, Dishwasher, Cafeteria, Farmworkers, Fast Food Industry, Waiters, Slidepollajax, Hostess, Business News

As you may have heard, the U.S. economy is predominantly a "service economy." Which means, for better or worse, a large percentage of Americans have b...

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Social Work Group Offers a Different View of Career Salaries

Tracy Whitaker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Workers, Social Workers Pay, National Association of Social Workers, Salaries, College Graduates, College News

Social work was recently listed on the Huffington Post as one of the worst paying college degrees. We at the National Association of Social Workers would like to respond.

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Why We All Should Applaud the Banking Industry

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salaries, Benefits, Corporations, Compensation, Bankers, Banking, Socialism, Capitalism, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News

Those who simply worked hard day and in day out? Should they be punished? Or should we, the employees, be the first beneficiary of corporate largesse?

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Obama To Freeze Pay Of Top White House, Administration Officials

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salaries, Congress, White House, Administration, #Sotu, State of the Union Speech 2010, Diplomats, Pay Freeze, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to freeze the salaries of his top aides at the White House and appointees across his government. A se...

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