Salary

There are many ways that a salary negotiation can go wrong, but it turns out that some people aren’t even engaging in this discussion when they get picked for a job. A whopping 61% of people didn’t ask for a bigger paycheck after they scored a job offer. Read More

EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren will take a pay cut to match the amount his female predeccessor, Carolyn McCall, made as part of commitment to equal pay for men and women. Read More

How Jessica Chastain helped Octavia Spencer get five times more in pay, and how you can, and should, do it too. Read More

How much is everyone around you getting paid? This is a question that many of us at work privately wonder, and now, through a database, some actually get to find out. Before you decide to make your own salary database about your workplace, there are pros and cons you should consider. Read More

A new poll has found that American success means wanting to earn more, so that we gain the freedom to work less. However, they don’t want to earn too much. Read More

If you find out that your coworker is making more money than you for the same job, here’s how to handle your reaction and subsequent potential actions with grace, so that you can hopefully get the raise you ask for or the peace of mind you seek. Read More

Elon Musk has agreed to stay as the company’s CEO for the next decade in exchange for a highly unusual pay package based on market value and operational milestones that Musk must reach. Read More

Amazon announced that it is banning any salary history inquiries for prospective U.S. employees, according to an internal message posted this week. Read More

Noncompete clauses, or agreements to delay working for a competing company, can follow us long after we’ve left a job, limiting our options to find work in our cities and reducing our salaries for years. Read More