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Jobs Report: Payrolls Added 148,000 Jobs in December
brownpau/Flickr This morning’s jobs report from the Labor Department showed the addition of 148,000 jobs to non-farm payrolls during the month of December — fewer than the 190,000 predicted by...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Become Indispensable at Work
WOCinTechChat/Flickr Want job security this year? Make yourself indispensable to your team at work. By making a few small (and not-so-small) changes, you can make yourself so essential to the work that...
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How to Make More Money in 2018
Sean Pollock/Unsplash Want to make more money this year? You’ll need to be proactive. Wages are growing, but you might not be able to prove it by looking at your bank balance. Factor inflation into...
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5 Skills Every Successful Person Needs
Riccardo Annandale/Unsplash The value of hard skills is easy to quantify: if you can learn X skill and get Y raise, you have a pretty good sense of how much that class or certification was worth. Soft...
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Resume Tips 2018: 5 Ways to Update Your Resume Right Now
Lukas/Pexels Did your New Year’s resolutions include getting a new job in the coming year? If so, you’ll need to make sure your resume is up to scratch. In fact, even if you don’t anticipate looking...
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Michelle Williams Earned $1,000 for ‘All the Money’ Reshoots. Mark Wahlberg...
Pixabay/Pexels Yesterday, USA Today revealed that Michelle Williams earned $80 per day — less than $1,000 total — for reshooting her scenes in All the Money in the World. Her co-star Mark Wahlberg...
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3 Ways to Tell If the Company Culture Is a Good Fit (Before You Take the Job)
Rawpixel.com/Unsplash A lot of factors determine whether or not you’re happy at your job: being paid appropriately for your work, having a certain amount of autonomy during the day and feeling...
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Louisiana Teacher Arrested at School Board Meeting After Questioning Pay...
Pixabay/Pexels A middle school English teacher was handcuffed and placed in a police car after objecting to the superintendent’s contract during a school board meeting in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana....
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These Are the 5 Best Jobs Today, According to U.S. News
filadendron/Getty Images What makes the best jobs superior to other occupations? A combination of factors. To arrive at their annual best jobs rankings, U.S. News & World Report started by looking...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: A 10-Step Guide to Job Interview Prep
shironosov/Getty Images Preparing for a job interview can feel a lot like being a student all over again: no matter how much you study, there’s always something more you could do to succeed. But, the...
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How to Use Gratitude to Be More Successful at Work
Kawin Harasai/Unsplash Recent research shows that gratitude can make us happier and healthier, even boosting mental health over time. But can it improve your career? There’s evidence to support the...
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After Tax Reform, Walmart Announces Bonuses (and Layoffs)
Mike Mozart/Wikimedia Commons Last week, Walmart made several announcements. In February, the retailer will raise its starting wage to $11 per hour. Walmart will also expand its paid leave policy to...
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The PayScale Index: Real Wages Still Lag Behind Pre-Recession Levels
Hin255/Getty Images Real wages — the buying power of workers’ pay, once inflation is taken into account — grew 0.2 percent since last quarter, according to the recently released Q4 PayScale Index....
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Dream Gig Alert: Chicken Nugget Taster
Do you have a discerning palate and an unparalleled love of chicken nuggets? If so — and if you live in the U.K. — you may have just found your dream gig. B&M, a British chain of discount stores,...
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Is This the Real Reason Wages Aren’t Growing Faster?
Timon Studler/Unsplash Wages have grown for nine consecutive quarters, but most Americans probably don’t feel richer than they did before the Great Recession. Why? Because real wages — the buying power...
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Apple Will Create 20,000 US Jobs Over the Next 5 Years
Pexels Yesterday, Apple announced that the company will invest $30 billion in capital expenditures in the U.S. over the next five years and create 20,000 new jobs. In all, Apple says that it expects to...
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Amazon Narrows HQ2 List to 20 Cities
Last year, Amazon issued an RFP to North American cities who met certain criteria and wanted to be the site of the company’s second headquarters. Today, the tech giant announced the 20 finalists for...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 7 Thank-You Note Mistakes That Can Cost You the Job
Gratisography/Pexels By now, you probably know that you should send a thank-you note after an interview. But committing to sending that note is only the first step — to make it work for you, it helps...
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10 Ways to Survive Working in a Job You Hate
Sadeugra/Getty Images “Do what you love” is a nice concept, but the reality is that most people have to take at least one meh job at some point during their careers, just to keep the lights on. The...
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Who Gets Paid During a Government Shutdown — and Who Doesn’t
Kendall Hoopes/Unsplash Many federal employees awoke this morning to find themselves on furlough – temporary, unpaid leave pending a resolution to the budget standoff in Congress. Typically, this means...
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