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Why It’s Worth It to Study Liberal Arts – Even If You’re Going Into STEM
Inbal Marilli/Unsplash As more tech companies hire workers without degrees, and career changers shift to coding jobs after completing non-degree bootcamps, it’s fair for the prospective college student...
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UK Companies Must Now Reveal Their Gender Pay Gap
mbbirdy/Getty Images Earlier this month, new rules took effect requiring U.K. companies with 250 or more employees to reveal the average salaries of men and women at their organization. The...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Manage Your Boss
JD Hancock/Flickr In a perfect world, you and your boss would always be on the same page. You’d have similar communication styles, and be able to come to an agreement quickly, with a minimum of fuss....
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Want to Save the Earth? Become a Telecommuter
RossHelen/Getty Images If your dream is to leave office life behind and work from home, you can feel good about the fact that achieving your goal might also help the planet. That’s right: telecommuting...
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Facebook Offers Employees Longer Paid Bereavement Leave
PeopleImages/Getty Images In February, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced that the company will offer 20 days of paid bereavement leave for employees who lose a direct family member, and 10 paid...
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Low-Income College Students Earn Less After Graduation
Hin255/Getty Images PayScale’s College ROI Report ranks the return on investment for a college education at hundreds of four-year schools. The data makes it clear that choice of major and school have a...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Network During a Stealth Job Search
Joan Vincent Canto Roig/Getty Images It may be easier to get a job when you have a job, but it sure isn’t easier to look for one. Half your energy during a stealth job search goes toward making sure...
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3 Reasons to Negotiate Salary (Even If You’re Scared)
Image Credit: Pexels Forty-three percent of respondents to PayScale’s Salary Survey said they’ve never negotiated salary in their current field. Most held back out of fear. That’s not necessarily...
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Babysitters Are Making Bank
lostinbids/Getty Images Wages have been slow to recover from the last recession, and real pay is still 7.4 percent less than it was in 2006. Of course, not all jobs experience the same pay growth. If...
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5 Schools for Art Students Who Don’t Want to Become Starving Artists
Death to the Stock Photo STEM degrees might lead to high-paying jobs, but not everyone wants to be a software engineer or a surgeon. If your heart yearns for a career in the arts, don’t despair: choose...
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ADP: Private Sector Added 177,000 Jobs in April
negativespace.com/Pexels Private payrolls added 177,000 jobs last month, according to this morning’s ADP National Employment Report. That number was slightly above the average of economists’...
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House Passes Bill Allowing Overtime Pay Swap
Ulrik/Getty Images Tuesday afternoon, the House of Representatives passed a bill allowing employers to offer additional time off in lieu of overtime pay for employees who opt in. The Working Families...
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The Future of Work – and Your Career
den-belitsky/Getty Images When you think about the future of your career, are you excited … or filled with dread? If you’re not a big fan of change, the latter is understandable. The coming years will...
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Jobs Report: Economy Added 211,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Lowest in 10...
brownpau/Flickr Nonfarm payrolls added 211,000 jobs last month, according to this month’s Employment Situation Summary from the Labor Department, while the unemployment rate declined slightly to 4.4...
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Star Wars vs. Star Trek: Which Fans Make More Money?
RichVintage/Getty Images PayScale’s Future Work Force report looks at all the serious issues facing workers in the future. We investigate which skills workers will need to succeed (and which will...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Want to Be Successful? Stop Saying These 7 Words
Jennifer Moo/Flickr Words have power. The words you choose to describe yourself and your work say a lot about whether you think you’ll be a success. Your coworkers pick up on these cues, but self-talk...
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5 Things You Don’t Know About Nurses
Medill DC/Flickr If your picture of nursing and nurses was formed by watching medical dramas on TV, you probably wouldn’t recognize a real Registered Nurse. Actual nurses do not flirt with doctors,...
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NYC Bans Salary History Question in Interviews
Andrew Ruiz/Unsplash On May 4, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation banning employers in New York City from asking applicants for their salary history. The law takes effect on Oct. 31, 2017. The...
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5 Weird Work-From-Home Jobs You Didn’t Know About
Alija/Getty Images When you think of work-from-home jobs, a few occupations spring to mind: customer service representative, blogger, software developer … basically, anything that depends more on the...
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Study: ‘Personality Factors’ Might Save Your Job From the Robots
jeffedoe/Flickr In 2013, researchers from Oxford University predicted that robots will replace human workers in up to 47 percent of U.S. jobs over the next 20 years. But a new study shows that if you...
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