Salary Archive

  • What is your college education worth?

    Tweet Georgetown did a study and came up with this: A college degree in general boosts your lifetime earnings by 84%. A closer look at 171 majors shows that there can be a difference of about 300% between the highest-paying majors and the lowest-paying ones. […]

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  • The fastest way to make more money

    Tweet This is a generalization, but the fastest way to make more money as an employee is to job hop. For some reason, the company you work for, tends to not appreciate or value you until you’re about to leave. Suddenly, you’re an essential asset to […]

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  • When should you ask for more money?

    Tweet Apparently, if you are willing (able?) to leave your job, it is the best position to be in to ask for more money. This paper studies the ex-ante effect of worker separations on wage negotiations using matched worker–firm data from The Netherlands. We find […]

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  • Do smokers make more money?

    Tweet I talked about men possibly preferring women who make less money than they do, and if your weight affects how much you earn. But how about smoking? onkel_wart From Barking up the wrong tree, I bring you the answer: NO. Smoking does not make […]

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  • Money buys UNhappiness when you are obsessed with it

    Tweet “There is a correlation between a person’s wealth and decreased ability to savor pleasant experiences” 374 adults in varying ranges of jobs, were split into two groups. The first group was shown a stack of money and the second group, a blurred money of […]

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