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The Gender Pay Gap Closed Slightly in 2016, But Don’t Celebrate Yet
When we talk about the gender pay gap, it’s important to be specific about which gap we’re discussing. The controlled gender pay gap, which compares only men and women with similar jobs, education, and...
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5 Side Jobs to Boost Your Income
Planning on how to spend that whopping 3 percent raise this year — if you’re lucky enough to get one? Most companies maintain tight budgets for merit increases; depending on how your expenses grow...
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Why Your Employer Should Care About Gender Pay Equity
Image Credit: diane555/Getty Images One of the more heartening findings in PayScale’s recent report, Inside the Gender Pay Gap, is that both women and men say they’re more likely to leave their job...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: A Formula for Cover Letters That Get Interviews
There are people who love networking, or job interviews, or even negotiating salary. But the one aspect of job searching that almost everyone hates is writing cover letters. Image Credit: Pexels For...
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Obama Administration: 100 Companies Have Taken the Equal Pay Pledge
In June, the White House announced the Equal Pay Pledge during the United State of Women Summit. This week, President Obama said that 44 new companies have recently signed the pledge, promising to pay...
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Will Portland’s CEO Pay Surcharge Address Income Inequality?
Last week, the City Council in Portland, Ore. voted to impose a tax surcharge on companies with high CEO-to-worker-pay ratios. Companies whose CEOs make 100 times more than the median-paid worker will...
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Obama Gives Federal Workers Bigger-Than-Expected Raise
Civilian federal employees got a welcome holiday surprise last week: a larger pay increase than initially projected. Image Credit: flySnow/Getty Images In a letter to the Senate and House leaders,...
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Did Unemployment Predict Trump’s Win?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment reached a nine-year low last month. Most economists agree that we’re approaching full employment. Still, wages haven’t grown as quickly as it...
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Want to Negotiate a Higher Salary? Hurry Up and Wait (for the Right Time)
PayScale’s Salary Negotiation Guide shows that 75 percent of people who negotiate salary get some kind of a raise. What went wrong for the remaining 25 percent? Well, sometimes it’s a matter of budget,...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Here’s Why You Hate the Office Holiday Party
Image Credit: WilleeCole/Getty Images In your daily life, you’re far from a Grinch. You’ll go out of your way to help a colleague, and you’re always up for a company happy hour or volunteering event....
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Love Makes Us Happier Than Money (But Ask for a Raise Anyway)
Having a partner has a bigger positive impact on happiness than earning more money, according to recent research from the London School of Economics. Image Credit: giumaiolini/Flickr Based on survey...
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25 Super-Productive Things to Do in 5 Minutes
The end of the year always seems like it should be slow. After all, half your coworkers are out of the office, and the other half have their minds on holiday planning and not on work. But for many...
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5 Things to Negotiate Besides Salary
First things first: most of the time, it’s in your best interests to negotiate salary. Not only are you likely to get more money, but not asking will almost certainly come back to haunt you. Keeping...
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Research: Men and Women Respond Differently to Bullying at Work
Men are more likely to opt out of the workforce because of bullying on the job, recent research shows. Women, on the other hand, are more likely to stay put … and wind up taking sick leave as a result...
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It’s Time to Put the Myth of the Lazy Millennial to Rest
Millennials, amirite? With their participation trophies and their entitlement and their fickle job-hopping ways. In our day, we knew how to be loyal and wait for gratification (or at least, raises and...
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White House: To Prevent AI From Killing Jobs, Educate the Workforce
Image Credit: jeffedoe/Flickr Earlier this week, a team lead by the Executive Office of the President released a report examining automation’s potential impact on the economy. The findings were far...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: The Worst Boss of 2016
Bad bosses are a big deal. In one survey, workers even chose bad managers as the No. 1 reason for leaving their jobs. Of course, if you’ve ever worked for a less-than-ideal boss, you’re probably not...
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Have Fun at Work, Learn More
Here’s a New Year’s resolution that could boost your career and make work more pleasant: have more fun at work. According to recent research, it could help you learn more without ever having to attend...
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17 Inspiring Quotes for Your Career in 2017
Even if you’re not a New Year’s resolution kind of person, there’s something appealing about starting fresh on the first of the year. Sure, it’s an arbitrary marker — there’s nothing magical about...
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50 New Year’s Resolutions to Boost Your Career
About 40 percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions each year, but most of us don’t make it to February with our goals intact. The secret to keeping any New Year’s resolution is start small — and...
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