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Salary numbers mislead unless you know what is counted. Check the measure first: median or mean, since means are dragged up by outliers at the top. Ch...

Negotiation is information work. Before any conversation, gather a range from postings, offers and surveys in pay transparent states; your anchor shou...

Your salary is about seventy percent of what your job costs. The rest is benefits: health insurance, retirement match, payroll taxes, leave and insura...

Pay follows the value of output and the local price of labor, not fairness. Wages cluster high in dense, high productivity metros with industry depth,...

College graduates in the United States earn roughly 60 to 75 percent more than high school graduates at the median, a premium that widened for decades...

Good salary data comes from four sources with different biases. Government statistics, like the occupational employment series, cover most payroll job...