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For some colleges, investing in football coaches is vital to the success of their athletics programs, and that can mean spending big bucks.
The 2025 national champion, Indiana University, paid head coach Curt Cignetti $8.3 million for the 2025 football season. But Cignetti's salary does not paint a full picture of how much Indiana spent on its football coaching staff. READ MORE
Teachers work in classrooms in all 50 states, but many of them are paid better than others.
The average teacher's salary in the U.S. was $74,495 for the 2024-25 academic year, the most recent analyzed by the National Education Association (NEA). The data covered more than 3 million teachers across the country who saw an average national increase of 3.5% in pay. READ MORE
Planning a relocation to the United States? A new study examined how much you would need to earn each year to live comfortably in every state. Nearly half of U.S. states now require an annual salary of more than $100,000 (about 300,000 shekels) for a single adult to live “comfortably,” according to an analysis by fintech company SmartAsset. READ MORE
An internal spreadsheet detailing the salaries of nearly 600 Microsoft employees shows that some of the company’s highest-ranking engineers and technical leaders reported base salaries of up to $280,000 a year, more than double the $111,000 to $134,000 reported by many entry-level workers.
The employee-created document, leaked to Business Insider, includes self-reported information on base salaries, raises, cash bonuses, and stock awards. The leak comes as the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant has stepped up its search for AI-focused talent, despite thousands of layoffs earlier this year. READ MORE
A newly leaked spreadsheet has revealed just how wild salaries are at one of the most valuable companies on the planet.
Obtained by Business Insider, the spreadsheet compiled voluntarily-disclosed pay rates from some 600 Microsoft employees at various levels of seniority. While the tech giant employs over 220,000 people overall, it still provides a valuable snapshot into the work life at one of the largest tech firms in the game. READ MORE
The average CEO of the US’s 100 largest, lowest-paying corporations earned 614 times more than their average worker last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
IPS’s latest executive excess report analyzed compensation at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay. Between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%, unadjusted for inflation, twice as much as the median worker pay increased at these firms during the same period, at 20.7%.
Inflation also outpaced worker pay increases, rising by 25.9%. READ MORE
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) set workplace norms that are still in use almost ninety years later. The FLSA established the 40-hour standard workweek and overtime protections for workers. It guaranteed pay at a rate of 1.5 times the standard hourly wage for work past the 40-hour mark. Overtime protections were designed as a safeguard for workers—to prevent employers from overworking employees and to require firms to pay workers fairly for their labor when they put in extra time on the job. By making long hours more expensive, the overtime premium incentivizes employers to hire more workers and spread the work around.
But as the country’s workforce has shifted over the nearly 90 years since the FLSA was enacted, the FLSA’s overtime rate has not. READ MORE
A leaked internal compensation database has offered a glimpse into how Microsoft employees are compensated across businesses including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, security and gaming.
According to reports, the spreadsheet contains compensation information voluntarily submitted by nearly 600 Microsoft employees. The data includes base salaries, annual pay increases, cash bonuses and stock awards across different job levels and business units. READ MORE
Jobseekers sometimes try to read between the lines of job listings to try to determine what the employer doesn’t want them to know. But when it comes to the ubiquitous phrase “competitive salary,” the ad usually means just what it says.
In fact, competitive salary usually means higher, not lower, pay, a JobLeads analysis of more than 21.5 million job postings found. This holds true across all industries and contract types, as well as most seniority levels. Jobs with these two words offer a median salary that is between $5,270 and $13,972 higher than standard postings. READ MORE
A salary can look like security from the outside while feeling remarkably fragile from inside the household.
That tension sits behind a figure in Salary Finance and FinFit’s fifth annual Inside the Wallets of Working Americans report. Even among respondents earning more than $200,000 a year, 39 per cent said they still experienced financial stress. READ MORE
A creditor may reach 100% of an LLC's distributions to a debtor. However, a creditor may only reach 25% of a debtor's wages after tax withholdings. That's a big difference. But in the context of an LLC where a debtor performs labor, is the money received therefrom to be characterized as a distribution or as wages?
Two dentists, Sharon Cobham and Nicole LeCann, formed a limited liability company called Joint Entities, LLC. Through that entity, Cobham and LeCann ran various dental practices from 2000 to 2010. READ MORE
As housing, grocery, transportation and other essential costs pressure household budgets, earning a six-figure salary no longer guarantees financial comfort in much of the U.S. A single adult now needs at least $80,000 a year to live comfortably in every state, while the threshold exceeds $100,000 in nearly half of states. For a family of four, the income needed to live comfortably is as much as $329,000. READ MORE
Elon Musk received over 2.5m times as much compensation at Tesla as the company’s average worker, according to a new report on the growing gap between top corporate executives and their workers.
Musk’s $158.3bn pay deal was an outlier but came as the gap between CEO and worker pay continued to grow. Excluding Musk, last year the average ratio of CEO to worker pay for the top S&P 500 companies was 312 to 1, up from a 285:1 ratio in 2024. With Musk, the average pay ratio was 5,387:1, according to the executive pay watch report released this week by the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the US. READ MORE
Extraordinary corporate compensation deals for Elon Musk have opened the door for the CEOs of other S&P 500 companies to win huge paydays, a new study shows.
Even excluding the CEO of Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab and SpaceX (SPCX.O), opens new tab, average compensation for chief executives in the S&P 500 soared 21% to $22.8 million in 2025, according to data to be released later on Thursday by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. That is the highest amount since the top U.S. labor federation began tracking the figure in the 1990s. READ MORE
Starting base salaries for 2026 law school grads are rising at large U.S. firms after a two-year lull as the bar’s been raised to $235,000.
It comes as more clout is wielded by the biggest players as a newly released NALP report on employment and pay for the class of 2025 revealed that roughly 20% of those who are employed work at firms with at least 500 lawyers. READ MORE
It’s hard to find a consensus of opinions, but this might come close: Workers want their wages to go up over time, ideally over and above inflation. These raises are what allow them to not just keep pace with the cost of groceries and rent but afford more—nicer neighborhoods, better computers, more berries. At an economy-wide level, this real wage growth (wage growth after adjusting for inflation) means that as society becomes richer and more productive, living standards improve in the population as a whole. It’s what allows children to grow up to be better off than their parents. READ MORE
Friday’s release of monthly labor data is expected to show that average hourly earnings in July increased by 3.5% relative to this time last year—which is in line with the 3.5% increase in the employment cost index (ECI) in the second quarter.
However, the ECI includes both wages and benefits, which offers a more complete look at the cost of labor for U.S. employers. READ MORE
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is, reportedly, concerned that new hires are only interested in money and not the company’s mission.
Axios included this information from a “source familiar” in a discussion about talent wars in the AI space.
The concern is laughable because people are always primarily motivated by money. The problem is that people talk about values and flexibility and meaningfulness in interviews precisely because hiring managers want to hire someone who wants “this” job and not “a” job. And now, apparently, CEOs have started to believe that it is truly a company’s mission that matters. READ MORE
Ungoverned hiring, promotion and merit decisions are costing enterprise organizations millions of dollars each year, recent research by Syndio found.
“Pay decisions are some of the highest-stakes calls a company makes, and most are still made one at a time, with no system connecting them back to strategy,” Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio said. “This research quantifies that cost and gives HR and finance leaders a way to calculate their own exposure.” READ MORE
When a basketball legend recently joined the Philadelphia 76ers, he accepted the biggest-ever pay cut in NBA history.
Sports fans in Philadelphia rejoiced last week when it was announced that LeBron James was joining the city’s 76ers, a move that has an interesting footnote for HR leaders. READ MORE
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