Salary

Everyone Agrees That the Decline in Private Sector Pay Has Been Understated

Dean Baker | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Pensions, Public Employees, Bubble, Income Inequality, Stock Market, Paycheck, Pay, Salary, Business News
Dean Baker

The cost to taxpayers of public employees' compensation packages are on average no greater than the cost to private sector employees. The big difference is that public employees can expect a considerably more secure retirement.

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Mothers Are Worth More Than $112,962

Shelley Abreu | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Earning Power, Motherhood, Parenting, Women's Earning Power, Stay at Home Moms, Stay-at-Home Moms, Salary, Parents News
Shelley Abreu

I get to wake up everyday and know that I have the hardest, but most important role in the world. And I don't need a single penny to make it worth my time and effort.

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Should I Go Back to Grad School?

Women & Co | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Business School, Earning Potential, Grad School, Cost of Higher Education, Salary, Graduate School Debt, Higher Education, Graduate School, School, Going Back to School, Money News
Women & Co

When it comes down to it, the decision to pursue further education lends itself quite nicely to the same thing we rely on to help us make other expensive decisions: simple math.

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WATCH: Ex-Banker Takes Huge Pay Cut To Open Butcher Shop

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Restaurant Industry, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Butcher, Pay, Craft Brews, Bakery, Salary, Employment, Banker, Pay Cut, Greg Smith, Chocolatiers, Business News

Ex-banker Terry Walsh isn't a victim of the financial crisis, so why did he leave his high-paying job to open a butcher shop? "This is my dream, an...

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Lawyers Have Income Inequality Problems, Too

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Income Gap, Financial Industry, Lawyers, Earning Gap, Wall Street, Income Inequality, Pay Gap, Great Recession, Salary, Wage Gap, Law School, Video, Business News

Income inequality is a problem among lawyers, too. As The Wall Street Journal notes, the country's richest lawyers have gotten richer since the Gre...

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Study Finds Earning Less Than Colleagues Actually Makes Some People Happy

University of St. Andrews | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Workers, St. Andrews, Salary, Happiness, Fifty News

Knowing that your colleagues and peers earn more than you can actually raise your satisfaction levels, but only if you are under 45, according to new ...

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Why Poaching Star Employees Might Not Be The Best Idea

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Hiring-Trends, External Hiring, Job Performance, John Thain, Hiring Source, Salary, Business News, Jobs, Hiring, Pay-Scale, Study, Business News

Companies in search of high-performing workers shouldn't look much further than their own offices, according to new research. Workers hired from o...

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Screening Job Applicants Through Facebook for Jobs Has Been a Dirty Little Secret for Years!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Kathy Lee GIfford, Matt Lauer, Employment, Sexual Orientation, Facebook, NBC Universal, Unemployment, CBS News, Mark Zuckerberg, Racism, Washington Post, Discrimination, Hoda Kotb, Job Whisperer, The Today Show, Anne Curry, Linkedin, Relationships, Harpercollins, The View, David Muir, Gay, Bloomberg, Oprah Winfrey, Controversy, Rachel Maddow, Justin Bassett, Ellen Degeneres, Barbara Walters, Salary, Fox News, Identity, ABC News, Disney, Good Morning America, Business News
Stephen Viscusi

Recent news stories have announced as part of your ability to gain employment with some companies, perspective employers are demanding your Facebook password -- and now everyone thinks it's a big deal.

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Beltway Influencers Still Mad Men

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Women, Gender Gap, Income Gap, Pay, Male, Women CEOs, Salary, Men, Paycheck, Female, Inequality, Income, Money News

If the worst-kept secret on Capitol Hill is that top lobbying groups actually control the show, then the best-kept secret is that the whizzes behind t...

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Major CEO Sees Big Pay Boost Even As He Retires

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Video, Regulatory Filing, Verizon Communications Inc., Ivan Seidenberg, Performance-Related Bonuses, Bonus, AT&T, Stock, Salary, Severence, Ceo, Perks, Business News

NEW YORK — Despite retiring as CEO of Verizon Communications Inc. in August, Ivan Seidenberg earned more in 2011 than he did in the last two ful...

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New York Not The Most Unequal County In America

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Bloomberg, Manhattan, Income Gap, Wall Street, Income Inequality, Occupy Wall Street, Salary, Labor Department, Wage Inequality, u.s. Census Bureau, Income, Inequality, Business News

In the United States, even even the inequality is unequal. Yes, the level of income inequality among American households rose 18 percent between 1...

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When to Broach the Salary Question?

Liz Ryan | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Career, Offer, Job Interview, Employment, Salary, Career Advice, Job Interview Tips, Job Search Tips, Money News
Liz Ryan

Gazillions of job-search advice articles have told job-seekers to clam up on the subject of compensation. "Wait for the offer," these books and articles say. "Whoever is first to name a number, loses," goes the old wives' tale.

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WATCH: What Is Your Desired Salary? From Tory Johnson

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Career Advice, Mondays With Marlo, Marlo Thomas, Tory Johnson, Video, Career, Salary, Women News

Often you will find yourself facing the dreaded question: "How much is your expected salary?" career expert Tory Johnson, the CEO of Women For Hire, h...

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Bonnie Kavoussi

Wages Fell In 2011, While Corporate Profits Surged

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Labor's Share of Income, Labor, Video, Low Wages, Workers, Corporate Profits, Profits, Wages, Salary, Work Productivity, Labor Share of Income, Worker Productivity, Productivity, Business News

A new report out Tuesday shows that working Americans made less money last year, as real wages fell about two percent in 2011, when accounting for inf...

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Low Salaries Chase Talent Out Of Teaching, Says Film "American Teacher"

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Education, Merit-Based Pay, Vanessa-Roth, Teacher Salary Project, Salary, Ninive Calegari, Dave Eggers, Teachers, Matt Damon, Unions, Education News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Robyn Gee A new film on the education circuit offers a new assessment of the answer to America's public education woes. Simply put: our current ...

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Stop the City Hall Gold Rush

Austin Beutner | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Reform, Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles, Salary, Ethics, LA City Hall, La Elected Officials, Los Angeles News
Austin Beutner

We more than generously compensate our city officials. They should return the favor with a guarantee to hold themselves to a higher standard of transparency and accountability than they now do.

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Instead of Complaining About Teachers, Become One

Shaun Johnson | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert, United Farm Workers, Republican Party, Benefits, Public Sector, Conservatives, Private Sector, Salary, Pensions, Education Reform, Teachers, Tea Party, Education News
Shaun Johnson

I implore all readers out there who begrudge teachers of what they earn to quit their dead-end private sector jobs and become a teacher. If you want information, I'm happy to provide it in the comments.

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Ron Dicker

Coaches Rout Professors In Salary Game

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Ohio State University, Texas Longhorns, Coach Salaries, Sports Business, Salary, Urban Meyer, Urban Meyer Ohio State, Ohio State, College Football, Ohio State Buckeyes, Texas Tech, Business News

Newly hired Urban Meyer will earn $4 million a year as Ohio State's football coach. The average college professor earns $81,491. Higher learning is...

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Study: Money Can Buy Happiness

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Money and Happiness, How-Much-Money, Money Makes You Happy, Salary Happiness, Salary, How Much Money Happiness, Money Happiness, Happiness-Studies, Happiness Money, Video, Business News

Countless studies have examined the relationship between income and happiness. But now scientists have pinpointed the exact amount of money you need t...

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The 10 Lowest Paying Jobs In America

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Minimum Wage, Income Inequality, Wages, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Salary, Jobs, Lowest Paying Jobs, Income Mobility, Slidepollajax, Income, Business News

What do fast food cooks, amusement park employees and farm workers have in common? They are among the lowest paying jobs in America today. The mean...

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Executive Pay Spiraling Upward As Corporations Race To Pay Their Top Brass The Most

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Poverty, Executive Pay, Peer Benchmarking, Third World America, Income Inequality, Corporate America, Corporations, Salary, Occupy Wall Street, Wage Stagnation, Executive Compensation, Income, Corporate Salaries, Video, Business News

The American economy may be faltering, but corporate executives needn't worry: Regardless of how well they perform, each one of them stands a good cha...

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Mondays With Marlo: Career Expert Tory Johnson

Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Women, Tory Johnson, Video, Career, Salary, Mondays With Marlo, Jobs, Interview, Women News

Career expert and entrepreneur Tory Johnson joins me on Mondays with Marlo for a chat about finding a job, nailing an interview, negotiating a salary,...

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Your Turn: Asking For A Raise

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Women, Your Turn, Video, Career, Money, Salary, Women News

As an actress I've never had to negotiate my own pay, but I remember one time a good friend of mine was about to ask her boss for a raise, and I could...

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6 Things To Consider When Accepting A Job Offer

The Daily Muse | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Career Advice, Co-Workers, Accepting Offer, Job Offer, Accepting Job Offer, Workplace, Women in Workplace, New Job, Salary, Women News

Scoring an offer means you’ve made it through the toughest part of the job hunt. All the applications, research, and thank-you notes have paid off...

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Amanda M. Fairbanks

Why You Need A Mentor At Work -- And How To Find One

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Negotiation, Sponsors, Women, Mentors, Pay, Work, Mentoring, Salary, Employment, Jobs, Good News, Women News

During her first job out of college, Ally Sperber never went in search of a mentor. Instead, Mary Ellen, one of the managing partners in the financial...

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