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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 6 Things Working Moms Want You to Know
g-stockstudio/Getty Images This Mother’s Day, many working moms will celebrate by surreptitiously answering work emails on their phones in between festivities. That’s because for parents who work...
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Study: Mississippi Is the Worst State for Police Pay
Matty Ring/Flickr When we hear stories about police pay, it’s usually about cops earning six figures with overtime, but the experience of most law enforcement officers in the U.S. is very different. In...
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Can You Be Fired for Political Activism?
Unsplash/Pexels Recently, Saily Avelenda resigned from her job as senior vice president and assistant general counsel at Lakeland Bank in New Jersey. Why? Because Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen — called...
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The No. 1 Reason You’re Not Negotiating Salary (and 3 Things to Do About It)
JD Hancock/Flickr Chances are, you’d like a raise — but you’ve probably never asked for one. In fact, 57 percent of respondents to PayScale’s survey said that they’ve never negotiated salary in their...
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Are Job Interviews Broken?
BraunS/Getty Images Think back to your last job interview. Did you feel like the interviewer’s questions revealed your aptitude for the job? If you’re on the other side of the conference table, think...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Land Your First Job After College
Inbal Marilli/Unsplash Transitioning from full-time student to full-time worker is scary, even if you’ve spent your college career racking up internships and toiling at part-time jobs. If you’re a...
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5 Work-From-Home Jobs That Don’t Require a Bachelor’s Degree
stockpic.com/Pexels Contrary to the myth of the low-earning telecommuter, 75 percent of remote workers earn more than $65,000 per year, per GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com. That puts them squarely in the...
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Would You Pay to Cowork in a Bar?
franckreporter/Getty Images As the freelancer population has grown, so has the popularity of coworking spaces. These offices rent space to contractors by the day or longer, offering flexibility while...
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5 Weekend Career Boosters That Don’t Involve Actual Work
Danka & Peter/Unsplash If you read a lot of career advice on the internet, you’ve probably seen several different variations on this theme: don’t work on your days off, whether that’s...
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The 5 Best Cities to Start Your Career in 2017
Austin, via Anne Worner/Flickr Where you choose to live has an impact on your financial success after graduation, just like what you chose to study and which college you attended. Cost-of-living is...
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Before You Ask for a Raise, Do These 3 Things
Franck BLAIS/Flickr Over half of respondents to PayScale’s survey said that they’d never negotiated salary in their current role. That’s too bad, because 75 percent of those who did ask received some...
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Apple’s New Campus Has Everything … Except a Daycare
Roman Pohorecki/Pexels A recent Wired feature took readers on a tour of Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, Calif. The company’s new HQ looks like a spaceship — or a donut, depending on your point of view...
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How to Get a Job Outside Your Major
Unsplash/Pexels A college education is about more than vocational training. During your years at school, you learned how to learn, how to think critically, and how to solve problems effectively....
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Fix a Bad First Impression
sturti/Getty Images In a perfect world, you’d never be late, or put your foot in your mouth, or make a mistake with a new boss or client. But you live in the real world, and every now and then —...
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You Asked for a Raise. The Boss Said No. Here’s What to Do Next.
JD Hancock/Flickr Seventy-five percent of respondents to PayScale’s survey who asked for a raise received some sort of pay increase. That’s good news, but of course it also means that 25 percent of...
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Maybe Don’t Hug Your Coworkers
Richard Masoner/Flickr Confession time: I’m a hugger. When another person might be inclined to go for a warm handshake, I’ve got my arms flung open wide like I’m greeting a long-lost relative at the...
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New Bill Would Incentivize Portable Benefits Programs for the Gig Economy
JD Hancock/Flickr Freelancers made up 35 percent of the workforce in 2016, according to a report from Upwork and Freelancers Union. Sixty-three percent said that they opted to freelance by choice,...
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Every Day Is Bring Your Cat to Work Day at This Japanese Company
Pexels Ferray, an IT firm in Toyko, has a unique cure for work stress: since 2000, the company has been host to a revolving roster of office cats. Currently, nine felines call the office home during...
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ADP: ‘Rip-Roaring’ Job Growth Adds 253,000 Jobs in the Private Sector
negativespace.com/Pexels Ahead of this morning’s report from payroll processor ADP, economists polled by Reuters were predicting the addition of 185,000 jobs to private payrolls. The ADP National...
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Hiring Outlook Is Bright for New Grads
Baim Hanif/Unsplash Employers say they plan to hire 5 percent more new grads this year than last year, according to recent data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The NACE surveys...
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