Work Life

JUNE 23, 2025

Here are some expert recommendations to help you take care of your finances and your mental health if you’ve lost your job: Take a break to process Losing your job can cause a lot of stress and financial anxiety, so it’s important that you take time to emotionally process. Especially in the U.S.,

Finance

Work Life

JULY 26, 2025

Early in your career, prioritize learning and growth over title and salary. The most coveted positions, whether in finance, consulting, technology, or other competitive fields, increasingly expect candidates to have meaningful internship experience, relevant projects, and established industry connections.

Mentoring

Success

JUNE 9, 2025

This is particularly true in fields like finance, technology, health care, education and science. Not only do starting salaries tend to be higher but the benefits can increase dramatically over time. Today, the 37-year-old is an electrical and instrumentation technician for a large energy company and makes a six-figure salary.

Automotive

Ask a Manager

JULY 23, 2025

Delaying can include asking relevant questions that the employer can’t immediately answer, requesting a few more days to look at your finances to see if you can make the offer work, and/or trying to negotiate salary and/or benefits.

Finance

Work Life

JUNE 20, 2025

Many of these shows documented photogenic amateurs overleveraging their finances and DIY skills to remodel cheap homes for a quick profit. The annuity will also do the hard work of budgeting your money for you, sending you monthly payments that re-create the experience of having a salary postretirement.

Real Estate

Work Life

JULY 29, 2025

In her twenties, already scraping by, she was forced to take a pay cut that shrunk her salary to just $34,000 a year. A seven-figure net worth is, to some, as outdated a yardstick as a six-figure salary. As a child, Heidi Barley watched her family pay for groceries with food stamps. million today, according to the U.S.

Banking

SnackNation

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Finance, strategy, product development, operations – those are the tangible, measurable elements of their business. of their salary. 48 Awesome Resources for Creating a Workplace Culture People Love. Improving workplace culture is a thorny issue for most business leaders. But Culture? 50% in voluntary turnover. 500 billion.

Communication

Insperity

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

59% of employees feel their salary has not maintained pace with the rising cost of living. Even among employees earning at least $100,000 per year, 47% are stressed about their finances and 15% run out of money between paychecks. But increased salaries may not always be feasible.

Finance

Insperity

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Let’s take a closer look at salary compression as well as how to spot, resolve and prevent it from reoccurring in your company. What is salary, wage or pay compression? Asking for a job seeker’s salary history won’t help much, either, especially if a prospective hire knows they can find a higher paying job elsewhere.

Salary

Success

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Financing higher education to advance career goals can be daunting. Saving for grad school on a teacher’s salary in an expensive city is challenging, especially without familial help. Be realistic about your ability to repay loans, especially if you will have a lower starting salary.

Finance

Insperity

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Anyone involved in hiring and retaining employees is torn between important and seemingly contradictory objectives: Address employees’ pain and concerns about the increased cost of living so you can prevent them from disengaging or leaving the company in search of a higher salary elsewhere. ( The Great Resignation is ongoing, after all.).

Salary

Insperity

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Anyone involved in hiring and retaining employees is torn between important and seemingly contradictory objectives: Address employees’ pain and concerns about the increased cost of living so you can prevent them from disengaging or leaving the company in search of a higher salary elsewhere. ( The Great Resignation is ongoing, after all.).

Salary

Work Life

MARCH 7, 2024

Over the last few years, states that were early adopters of pay transparency laws have served as a testing ground for advocates of the policy change, who argued that disclosing salary information would help mitigate pay inequities on the basis of race and gender. But not all salary transparency laws are made equal.

Salary

Work Life

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Discussing one’s pay has traditionally been taboo, and an employer sharing salary information can feel compromising on a number of levels. Following a lengthy and rigorous interview process, we show our desired hire the full company finances, including everyone’s salary at the firm. It’s understandable.

Salary

Success

JULY 8, 2024

But when it came time to receive her first salary as a professional basketball player, many fans—and women across the country in general—were shocked by the amount: $76,535. Glamour wrote, “The math is not mathing” and quoted a Twitter post that said Clark would qualify for low-income housing in San Francisco on that salary.

Salary

Insperity

JUNE 17, 2021

Compare how your company aligns with others in terms of salary and benefits, including: Health insurance PTO Leaves Options for flexible work schedules or remote work Unique perks. Do you find ways to accommodate them, on a case-by-case basis, when personal or family obligations conflict with work? Marketplace and competitor analysis.

Leadership

Great Place to Work

MARCH 27, 2017

Since we’re talking finance, let’s skip to the bottom line: High-trust employers are more profitable than their peers. Here are three key takeaways from the Best Workplaces in Finance, recently announced by Great Place to Work and Fortune. The fairness of salary, benefits and bonuses.

Finance

Ask a Manager

MAY 27, 2021

This post, my interviewer asked about my personal finances , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I can’t imagine that personal finances are any business of a potential employer for roles like this that don’t require a security clearance. Salary should be based on merit, not need.

Finance

SnackNation

MAY 24, 2017

This Map Shows The Average Salary for Office Managers in Every State. Today’s OMs are being tasked with more and more duties traditionally held by HR, finance, or operations. On a high level, we found that salaries have been slow to catch up to the role’s heightened stature and scope. click to enlarge). Pay, of course, varies.

Salary

Success

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But you also need to be prepared for your finances to change dramatically. The good news is that you can make a salary even if your business isn’t profitable. The bad news is that if you don’t have a profitable business to start, you might feel guilty or reckless drawing anything except the smallest salary you can live on.

Finance

Workplace Insight

APRIL 30, 2024

In an ideal scenario, raising salaries would be the solution to the cost-of-work problem, but with many companies also feeling the force of inflation, upping people’s pay appears to be out of the question. The post Commuting costs continue to put strain on office worker finances appeared first on Workplace Insight.

Finance

Insperity

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

There are many ways by which you can organize your employees: By function (sales, marketing, accounting/finance, etc.) For example, do you have an employee whose title or salary doesn’t align with their tenure? By region By product line. Your organization can be vertical, hierarchical, flat or matrixed.

Planning

Ask a Manager

JULY 19, 2021

This post, update: my interviewer asked about my personal finances , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. That’s when I emailed you, because I wanted to make absolutely sure that I wasn’t misinterpreting the finance thing. Here’s the update. Well, I wasn’t rejected.

Finance

Insperity

JUNE 26, 2018

Households in 2016 – May 2017 from the Federal Reserve, 63 percent of college students ages 18-29 indicated they acquired debt to finance their bachelor’s degree. If you hire two recent graduates and one has student debt and the other doesn’t, will you offer the non-debt-laden employee extra salary? Will it be fair if you don’t?

Payroll

Insperity

AUGUST 1, 2019

If bookkeeping practices are kept in reasonable order and someone can manage the books, tackle closing and financial reporting, then there’s no requirement that the most senior financial person have a C-suite title, saving you a permanent post and a corresponding salary.

Leadership

Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 5, 2023

31 percent would like to see more robust wellbeing benefits introduced within their company Mental wellbeing Personal finances (59 percent) and job challenges (55 percent) rank as the top sources of stress, while 29 percent of employees say their mental health has declined due to the current economic environment.

Finance

Success

JULY 25, 2022

Although everyone’s personal finance journey is exactly that, there are certain steps we all can take as we pursue financial feminism and literacy. Get familiar with your finances. Knowledge is power, and knowledge of our own finances is especially powerful. Compared to African American participants, who responded to 2.3

Finance

Success

MARCH 15, 2022

From misinformation to oversimplified generalizations about money that get passed down from generation to generation, most of us have adopted false beliefs about our finances. It’s OK to settle for a starter salary. Buying in bulk is a better deal. The price of managing your money under misguided assumptions is high.

Purchasing

Insperity

APRIL 14, 2016

One of the biggest mistakes small business owners make is putting one person in charge of the finances. a personal lifestyle that doesn’t match salary. Actions can vary from updating your employee handbook to employee termination and legal intervention. Many times theft can occur out of opportunity. unusual working hours.

Supplies

Success

JULY 17, 2024

The position was at the same level as her current role but with a slightly lower salary. Consider the opportunity When evaluating a lateral move, it’s important to consider more than just the salary. Then you would be interacting with the CFO, heads of finance and other members of the financial community. Her gamble paid off.

Finance

Insperity

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

According to the Olivet Nazarene University study , 64% of employees with friends at work discuss conflict with other co-workers, and 68% talk about salary. information related to our finances, health, love life, family life, etc.). Sensitive, work-related conversations can happen that you’d prefer employees avoid.

Mentoring

Insperity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When you think about motivating employees, you might naturally gravitate to things like: Generous salaries Good healthcare Paid time off Overtime Holiday breaks. Employees with young children may be trying to figure out summer camps, childcare routines and financing. These all help attract top candidates.

Healthcare

Success

JULY 27, 2023

Cynthia Holman is an IT finance professional based out of St. 2: Lack of salary transparency You’re applying for a new role and the application asks you to list your salary requirements. The salary is not listed on the job description, and Google comes back with such a wide range, you’re unsure of what to put down.

Salary

Work Life

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Looking ahead, some of these trends—such as states enacting laws that secure paid leave and salary transparency—will likely continue into the new year. Massachusetts just passed its own version this fall, and salary transparency laws in Hawaii and Illinois will be put into practice in 2024 and 2025, respectively.

Salary

Work Life

JUNE 6, 2024

In this era of Zero Interest-Rate Policy (or ZIRP), easy money, particularly in the tech sector, led to salary inflation that has left a complex legacy, marked by subsequent layoffs and a reevaluation of compensation strategies across industries. it was a global phenomenon, pushing salary budgets to their limits.

Salary

Work Life

MAY 4, 2024

But the heady enjoyment of an adult-level salary—dining out, weekend getaways, wardrobe upgrades—can make it hard to remember the importance of planning for future needs. It’s much easier to make a single decision to set money aside than make repeated decisions about your finances with every pay cycle.

Purchasing

Success

MAY 29, 2023

Many people focus on one or two areas of their finances but don’t stop to look at the big picture and confirm that they’re moving in the right direction overall. Remember: This is just a snapshot of your finances and not an indication of your value as a person. If you have a zero or negative net worth, don’t panic.

Finance