salaries

In 2010, the average salary in the securities industry in New York City was five and a half times the average salary in the rest of the private sector in the city.

In 1981, the ratio was two to one.

The new governor of Libya's central bank says the former regime sold about 20 percent of the country's gold reserves to cover salaries amid the uprising that ousted Moammar Gadhafi.

Top 7 cities to find finance jobs, along with a breakdown for what’s in demand and the skills, profiles of local candidates, and percentage change in salaries.

An undergraduate major in college is strongly tied to a student's future earnings, with the highest-paying majors providing salaries of about 300 percent more than the lowest-paying.

It would take 441,400 Americans making $50,000 a year to match the salaries of the top 25 hedge-fund managers combined.

Hedge-fund managers aren't the only ones. Last year, CEO pay increased 27 percent, rebounding back to prerecession levels.

(University of Rochester) Why in the United States are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? A new study shows that our larger cities are responsible for up to one-third of the growth in the wage gap.

And it's the soaring salaries of many urban dwellers that is causing the mega income gap in megacities.

The Taiwanese electronics company buffeted by a spate of suicides at its China factories said Friday it will raise workers' salaries by an average of 20 percent.

This piece takes a look at the salaries of select jobs in the US, inside and outside the government. While the Obamas filed an adjusted gross income of 5.5 million for 2009, and Palin has reportedly earned 12 million since July, consider the fact that some government staffers only make 17k in yearly salary.

The "new normal" for employment doesn't work for anyone except employers and career coaches who are trying to sell how the recession is an opportunity for resourceful people.

That's why they both want us to accept depressed salaries and bigger workloads as the new status quo.

A few struggling banks in the postbailout world are by some measures the industry’s most generous employers.