Tim Cook's modest home
Apple's top exec certainly doesn't live like America's "highest paid CEO" A Google search Tuesday morning for "Tim Cook" and "highest paid CEO" turned up 457 headlines, including a handwringer from the...
View ArticleApple CEO's earnings: The New York Times gets it wrong
What part of "over 10 years" don't its editors understand? The New York Times had a lot of fun with Tim Cooks' compensation package Sunday. It led an article about excessive CEO pay with the...
View ArticleGet ready for more stupid Apple CEO salary stories
Did Tim Cook really make $378 million in 2011? Did his pay really drop 99% in 2012? FORTUNE -- You'd think this would be pretty easy to sort out, especially for the financial brainiacs at Bloomberg...
View ArticleNo, Apple's senior VPs are not the S&P 500's best-paid execs
Don't Bloomberg's brainiacs know the difference between an RSU and a pay check? FORTUNE -- Remember the stories in the tech press last year that named Apple's (AAPL) Tim Cook the highest-paid CEO of...
View ArticleBuilding our worth, and more…
On the road again talking some Gen Y smack, but wanted to float a few things past you while I have a few minutes. First, have been meaning to bring up the recent Ask Bing, “I’m worth more than $28K a...
View ArticleOn raises, holiday parties, and more…
We’re going to be talking compensation for the next few days since this is the time many of us start tothink about ’08 raises and, more importantly, how to ask for them. To begin, check out our new...
View ArticleGetting paid
Whether you’re applying for your first job, negotiating your first raise, or counseling newbie friends on how to handle theirs, compensation is always a hot topic with young workers. So in the interest...
View ArticleYour salary: Don’t ask, don’t tell?
Did you all see “Not-So-Personal Finance” in the New York Times this weekend? It’s a story about young people sharing their salary figures with each other which has long been considered bad...
View ArticleFortune’s Most Powerful Women: The 25 highest-paid men
1. Lawrence J. Ellison 2. Jeffrey E. Williams 2. Peter Oppenheimer 2. Robert L. Mansfield 5. Bruce D. Sewell 6. Leslie Moonves David M. Zaslav 8. Nikesh Arora Ray R. Irani 10. Richard B. Handler 11....
View ArticleFord’s new chief executive to make $1.75 million
Ford’s new CEO can probably afford to buy a Ferrari. Mark Fields will make $1.75 million per year in his new role, according to an SEC filingWednesday. Of course, that’s not all the money he’ll make...
View ArticleHigh paying jobs are more plentiful as economy improves
There’s good news to go along with today’s job reportthat showed a sharp drop in unemployment. Many of the new jobs created this year are high-paying, offering further proof of an economic rebound...
View ArticleThe ‘new normal’ in how you get paid
First, heres the good news: U.S. companies salary budgets are growing, up an average of about 3% for 2014, so everyone has a shot at a slightly better raise this year and next than they did in 2013....
View ArticleHow do you avoid appearing ‘difficult’ when declining to tell a recruiter...
Answer by Michael Wolfe, startup founder People will rarely call you “difficult” because of what you say. It will more typically be because of how you say it. Are you sure you weren’t defensive or...
View ArticleCongrats, world, you’re getting a raise next year
Here’s some good news for everyone: salaries are expected to increase by 5.4% on average globally in 2015. That’s the key finding in a study from Hay Group, a global management consultancy firm, which...
View ArticleJPMorgan’s Dimon gets his bonus again
(REUTERS) – JPMorgan Chase & Co’s Jamie Dimon’s compensation in 2014 stayed unchanged at $20 million, but the chief executive officer got a cash bonus, something he was not awarded in 2013. Dimon’s...
View ArticleFor blue-collar America, staffing firms see meager wage gains
(Reuters) – America’s vast staffing industry knows it’s time to jack up wages when it becomes difficult to find enough workers. That isn’t happening yet for many blue-collar jobs, indicating there’s...
View ArticleUnderpaid since your last job? How to catch up
Dear Annie: I'm in an awkward situation, because I found out recently from a reliable source that my peers (all male; I'm the only woman here) make significantly more money than I do. So I did some...
View ArticleThese were the best paid hedge fund managers of 2014
The highest-paid hedge fund managers in 2014 earned a total of $11.62 billion, The New York Times reported Tuesday, using information by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine. The men on the list – a...
View ArticleThese are the most extreme jobs
Adrenaline addicts looking for a new job may want to consider a few of the following: Crocodile physiologist, venom milker and skydiving instructor. They all made a list of the world’s most extreme...
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