Is Your Boss Spying on You at Work?
It's not an uncommon thing for writers to incite the fear of an impeding Orwellian society in their audience — Big Brother's watching, the NSA is spying, Trump's trumping. But how many of us actually consid...
The Perception Gap: Women Half As Likely to Believe Women and Men Have Equal Opportunities in the Workplace
By now, everybody has heard about the gender pay gap. Women in the workforce don't earn as much as men, whether you're comparing overall earnings or comparing men and women working in the same jobs. But des...
3 Ways Meditation Could Help You Enjoy Your Job More
We all have professional goals we're working toward. It's great to be ambitious, strive to be more productive, etc. But, it's also all right, advisable even, to want to enjoy your job more. Deep down, findi...
How College Rankings Have Changed
How do college rankings help students choose a school? Earlier this week, at SXSWedu, panelists from PayScale, The Princeton Review, Money magazine, and Cornell examined college rankings, how they've evolve...
The 5 Jobs With the Worst Gender Pay Gap
Men earn more than women in every industry, but some occupations have a worsegender pay gap than others. Recently, Time released their list of the 25 jobs with the biggest gap between male and female earnin...
PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: What to Ask Instead of ‘What Do You Do?’
What's the worst part about networking? All the horrifyingly dull questions you have to ask and answer, in order to establish new relationships with your fellow humans. But, there's no law that says we have...
Don’t Be Afraid of Lateral Career Moves
Want to move up the corporate ladder? You might need to be willing to go sideways. Horizontal or lateral moves can be just as big a boon to your career as a straight shot up the org chart. Here's what you n...
Unconscious Bias Is Happening Where You Least Expect It: At Your Workplace
Recently, PayScale released data that show the gap between men and women's perceptions of equal opportunity at work. Based on 140,000 individual responses to thePayScale Salary Survey, the report showed tha...
5 Job Titles That Sound Way Better Than the Actual Job
In the modern world of careers, we have gotten really creative with our job titles. But sometimes, even the coolest-sounding job titles can actually be incredibly boring. This comes from a recent AskReddit ...
How to Keep Productivity Apps From Destroying Your Productivity
Picture this: It's 6:32 a.m. Your Sleep Cycle alarm knows this is the perfect 15-minute interval of light sleep in which take wake you up. You go into the bathroom and stream your favorite new album on Spot...