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Massachusetts Bans Salary History Question in Job Interviews
Earlier this week, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill requiring equal pay for men and women performing comparable work. As a provision of that law, which will take effect July 1, 2018,...
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Do Workers Care How Much the CEO Makes?
Next year, the Dodd-Frank Act will require publicly traded companies to publish their CEO-to-worker pay ratio, a move that’s expected to draw attention to the growing gulf between the salary of CEOs at...
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What Managers Can Do to Make Workers Happier About Their Salary
Maybe the most surprising fact in PayScale and Equilar’s new report on CEO pay is that most workers are fine with how much money their CEO is making. Seventy-nine percent of respondents who knew the...
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Jobs Report: 255,000 Jobs Added in July, Unemployment Steady at 4.9 Percent
Prior to this morning’s release of the monthly Employment Situation Summary, economists were predicting the addition of 180,000 jobs to public and private payrolls. The report from the Labor Department...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Find Your Passion, By Asking This Question
Given our druthers, most of us would prefer to work at a job we love, rather than just fight our way through each day by focusing on the paycheck. But figuring out a career that combines love and money...
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10 Quotes From Olympic Athletes to Inspire You to Go for the Gold
To make it to the Olympics, athletes need more than superhuman strength and agility: they need grit, willpower, and the determination to keep getting back up every time they fall. Maybe that’s why the...
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3 Salary Negotiation Myths That Are Keeping You Broke
When it comes to making more money, what you think you know about salary negotiation might be more dangerous than what you don’t know. It’s easy to assume that you understand a lot about how...
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3 Meditation Tips for People Who Hate Meditating
Want to be better at your job, less stressed out, more focused, and just plain happier at work, all while having just a little bit more in common with Oprah and Steve Jobs? Meditation is the way to …...
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What Will Millennials’ #FirstSevenJobs Look Like?
Last week, Alaskan songwriter Marian Call shared her first seven jobs on Twitter and asked other users to do the same. The resulting hashtag, #FirstSevenJobs, provided insight into the rocky road that...
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The 5 Fastest-Growing Dangerous Jobs of 2016
Every year, CareerCast releases a list of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S., compiled by cross-referencing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control, and the...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 50 Google Searches That Will Save You From a Layoff
Pity the job seekers of yesteryear: when they wanted to avoid taking a job with a lousy employer or an unstable company, they had to scour the news or listen to the grapevine. Now, you can just Google...
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Research: Keeping Work and Life Separate Doesn’t Boost Productivity
There are a lot of reasons to keep your personal and professional lives separate, not least of which is the desire to have some downtime, untainted by work pressures. The problem is that modern working...
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Goodyear Confirms Death of Fourth Worker in One Year
This morning, a worker named William Scheier died in an industrial accident at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Danville, Virginia. It was the fourth fatality at the plant during the past year,...
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3 Reasons Simone Biles Is the Only #MondayMotivation You Need
Image Credit: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, Simone Biles won her third Olympic gold medal, setting the U.S. record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics...
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Women: Wear Makeup, Make More Money?
Generally speaking, women earn less than men (74 cents on the dollar, to be exact, or 97 cents if we look at men and women in similar jobs). They also spend more on grooming products ($15,000 on makeup...
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Soon, Your Employer Might Owe You Money for Checking Emails After Work
Why is it so hard for today’s workers to achieve work-life balance? In part, it’s because work never stops. If you have a smartphone and email access, you can always check in with the office just one...
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What You Can Learn From Donald Trump’s 500+ Job Titles
Regardless of how you feel about politics in general or any of the candidates in particular, the run-up to the presidential election is always pretty eye-opening. For instance, we tend to learn a lot...
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Research: To Close the Jobs Gap, Lessen the Burden of Changing Careers
If you knew that robots would replace you in your current job in, say, five or 10 years, would you start retraining today—or would you hold on, hoping that you could find another opening in your...
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Silicon Valley, Where the Middle Class Live in Cars
Mountain View, Calif. is part of Silicon Valley and home to Google and a host of other technology companies. It also has at least 126 residents living in cars, according to a count conducted this...
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#Shoegate: Why Not Ask Successful Men to Share the Shoes That Best Describe...
St. Louis Business Journal’s recent package on the city’s 25 Most Influential Business Women included CEOs, presidents, nationally recognized financial advisors, attorneys, and entrepreneurs—and 24...
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