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Byline: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY Relocating during COVID-19? Pulling up stakes could come with a substantial pay cut. With the pandemic upending office life, some employees working remotely are contemplating [...]

Byline: Heather Long By just about any metric this is the best job market since the late 1990s. The economy has been adding jobs for 110 straight months - a [...]

In a vacuum, the latest numbers on the job market are pretty solid, even good. Most important, while the overall unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 percent for August, there [...]

President Trump is running for re-election on the strength of the economy, and why not? The unemployment rate is lower than it's been in five decades. The stock market is [...]

For years it was the central question in an otherwise impressive recovery by the American job market: Why aren't wages rising faster? Unemployment was low. Hiring was strong. Corporate executives [...]

You dropped out of college, or decided straight out of high school that college was not your thing. Here's some advice if you are looking for a job: Stay out [...]

Byline: Heather Long Workers are receiving the fattest wage increases since the Great Recession as employers struggle to find enough people to fill their ranks and employees have more leverage [...]

Byline: Jared Bernstein Much as Narcissus ruinously fell in love with his own reflection, economists shouldn't fall in love with their own graphs. But given how revealing the little figure [...]

Byline: Joe Kelly Jul 15, 2019 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Deloitte Access Economics partner Chris Richardson contends that a slowdown in the economy is not the main [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, USA TODAY For years after the Great Recession, the jobs recovery came with a caveat: The fastest employment gains by far were in low-wage industries such as [...]

WASHINGTON -- One of the most perplexing questions about the nation's economic recovery is why a tight labor market has not translated into faster wage growth. Part of the answer [...]

Byline: Thomas Franz By Thomas Franz and Pat Murphy Salaries and employment rates are increasing for recent law school graduates nationally. The National Association for Law Placement released its 2017 [...]

Once a year my academic base, CUNY's Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, holds a workshop featuring cutting-edge research on inequality. At this point in my life, I can't claim to [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, USA TODAY Quick -- what are the hottest jobs offering the biggest pay hikes? Web developer? Network engineer? Yes, but don't forget cashier, delivery driver and bank [...]

As the unemployment rate has fallen in recent months and the economy has roared, one central question has bedeviled the American job market: Where is the wage growth? New data [...]

Byline: Jared Bernstein Once again, the monthly jobs report brought mostly good news. Employment growth remains solid, and we even got a nice pop on wage growth, which has been [...]

BERLIN, Wis. -- For as long as he can remember, the only thing Matt Gies really wanted to do for a living was repair farm equipment. But ever since he [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette WASHINGTON - As the nation's post-recession recovery turned into a long-running economic expansion, policymakers had hoped wages would start to boom once laid-off workers found jobs. With [...]

Byline: Laurent Belsie Here's a Labor Day quiz: Whose pay rose at the fastest rate in the past year - lawyers or truckers? PhDs or workers who didn't graduate from [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, @Pdavidsonusat, USA TODAY Low-wage jobs are expected to grow the fastest over the next five years while occupations that support a middle-class living will lag, according to [...]

The prospect of good jobs at good pay has faded of late, and the government is only threatening to make things worse. Cutting taxes on the wealthy, especially by rescinding [...]

One of the economy's biggest mysteries is this: The labor market is the strongest it has been in a decade, yet wages are rising barely faster than inflation. For some [...]

This appeared in Sunday's Washington Post. - - - America is experiencing a season of political turbulence, and economic conditions are to blame. Or at least that's a now- conventional [...]

BEIJING -- Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump has claimed that China is stealing American manufacturing jobs. In a speech to the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Mr. Trump [...]

AMID the global economic turmoil and seesawing markets, millions of Americans have one overriding question: When will my pay increase arrive? The nation's unemployment rate has fallen substantially since the [...]

Byline: Lawrence H. Summers I think of myself as pro-business. I frequently counseled the Obama administration that 'business confidence is the cheapest form of stimulus,' and during my times in [...]

Byline: Jared Bernstein Thanks to the friendly nerds at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we head into the Labor Day weekend with a jobs report for August. The report was [...]

London: Society for Human Resource Management has issued the following Press release: Nationwide studies reveal that the U.S. labor market remains bullish about hiring through the second half of the [...]

Byline: Harold Meyerson So what gives with the American people? Don't they realize, as my colleague Charles Krauthammer argued last week, 'that free trade is advantageous to both sides'? The [...]

The last couple of decades have been terrible for American workers without much education. New research calculates just how bad, and offers some evidence as to why that is. In [...]

Byline: Jim Tankersley WASHINGTON - Of all the scary stats you've heard about the U.S. economy over the last few years, this might be the scariest: Almost two-thirds of American [...]

Job growth surges, wages tick upwards The January jobs report was spectacular. The labour market is fizzing along, adding more than one quarter of a million jobs in January, and [...]

Steady hiring demand will continue in Singapore across most sectors and industries this year, but candidates should not expect salaries that reflect this level of demand, warns recruiting experts Hays. [...]

Byline: Heather Long NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- America had 5 million job openings at the end of November, the most since 2001, according to new government data. That means the [...]