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Introducing #RestingBizFace
Image Credit: julie514/Getty Images You’re not bitchy. You’re busy. But try to explain that to (some of) your coworkers, who insist on treating a serious expression like a snarl. This isn’t unique to...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Address Conflict at Work
Conflict is unavoidable, in life and at work. At some point in your career, you’ll disagree with a coworker about something that’s important to both of you, and find yourself trying to resolve the...
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Please Don’t Play Any of These Horrible April Fools’ Pranks on Your Coworkers
Image Credit: mediaphotos/Getty Images Depending on your perspective, April Fools’ Day is either the highlight of the year — or a good day to hide under the covers. This year, the prankster’s favorite...
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Why Are Wages Growing So Slowly?
Image Credit: BAMCorp/Flickr Unemployment reached a nine-year low toward the end of last year. Wages have grown five out of the past six months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The...
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Show Us Your #RestingBizFace
The PayScale crew shows off #RestingBizFace. What is #RestingBizFace? It’s the expression of concentration you make when you’re focused on your work. If you’re a working woman, you know you’ve got...
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President Trump Rolls Back Workplace Protections for Women
On March 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order revoking the Fair Pay and Safe Workspaces order, signed by former-President Barack Obama in 2014. The original order required companies...
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5 Things Anyone Can Do to Close to Close the Gender Pay Gap
Today on Equal Pay Day, PayScale hosted a one-hour roundtable discussion addressing the challenges facing women in the workforce. The panelists included Elizabeth Weingarten (Director of the Gender...
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ADP: Private Sector Added 263,000 Jobs in March
It was another blockbuster month for private payrolls, according to this month’s ADP National Employment Report. The payroll processor reported the addition of 263,000 jobs in the private sector,...
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The Day After Equal Pay Day, US Women’s Soccer Team Reaches Deal for Fair Pay
joshjdss/Flickr This morning, the U.S. women’s national soccer team ratified an agreement with U.S. Soccer, the governing body that manages the sport. The deal, which came after a year of negotiations,...
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Jobs Report: Economy Added Just 98,000 Jobs in March, But Unemployment Fell
Prior to this morning’s release of the Employment Situation Summary from the Labor Department, economists polled by Reuters were predicting the addition of 180,000 jobs to public and private, non-farm...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Refuse to Share Your Salary History
Danielle Moler/Flickr By now, you probably know that it’s a bad idea to share your salary history with a prospective employer. If you were lowballed by your last hiring manager, it could come back to...
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5 Ways to Tell It’s Time to Ask for a Raise
Every worker wants more money, but many are uncomfortable asking. In fact, data collected for PayScale’s Salary Negotiation Guide show that only 43 percent of respondents had ever asked for a raise in...
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US Government Accuses Google of Gender Pay Discrimination
Recently, Google announced that it had closed the gender pay gap at its offices around the world, sharing its fair pay practices on the org’s re:Work site. However, the U.S. Department of Labor...
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The PayScale Index Just Updated. Did Your Industry Get a Raise?
Hin255/Getty Images The PayScale Index, which measures the change in wages for employed U.S. workers, updated this morning, reflecting slower wage growth for the quarter. Wages grew 2.1 percent...
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New York Will Be the First State to Provide Free Four-Year College Tuition
demerzel21/Getty Images On Sunday night, New York State approved a budget that will offer free college tuition to lower- and middle-income residents. The Excelsior Scholarship Program will provide free...
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Free Program Turns Coal Miners Into Computer Programmers
andresr/Getty Images There are 40 percent fewer coal miners working in the US today than there were just five years ago, and 100,000 fewer coal jobs than there were in the mid-1980s. Despite President...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Avoid the Resume Overshare
Imageegaml/Getty Images For many of us, job searching is not an activity that inspires feelings of confidence and security. For one thing, unless you get an offer from the first interviewer you meet...
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Are You Underpaid? Here’s How to Tell (and What to Do Next)
RyanKing999/Getty Images Chances are, you’d like a raise. You probably even deserve one. But when it comes to negotiating a pay increase, it’s all about what the market will bear. This is true whether...
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Want to Get Promoted? Do These 5 Things Today
JD Hancock/Flickr While it’s possible to build a career by leveling up each time you take a brand-new job, getting promoted internally has a lot of advantages. For one thing, it allows you to grow into...
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Clif Bar Pays Employees to Work Out 2.5 Hours a Week
oneinchpunch/Getty Images Employers want their workers to be healthy. For one thing, it saves them a lot of money on healthcare costs. But few employers are willing to put their money where their mouth...
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