Wages and salaries

Unions for service workers at Walt Disney World have reached a tentative deal with the company that would raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18 an hour. Disney World service workers who are in the six unions that make up the Service Trades Council Union coalition planned to vote on the contract proposal next Wednesday. They rejected an...

The contract with the service workers covers more than half of the 70,000-plus workforce at Disney World.

The company offers buyouts to white-collar workers with at least five years of service and global executives.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is pressing lawmakers to speed up an increase of the minimum wage to $15 this year instead of waiting until 2025. However, part of the measure that would add annual cost of living adjustments beginning in 2025 is coming under questioning by lawmakers. Moore acknowledged it’s going to take some convincing to pass the measure. The...

The Apple leader has received a $3 million base salary for the past three years, but his total compensation jumped from $14.8 million in 2020 to $98.7 million in 2021 and $99.4 million in 2022.

In many major U.S. cities, minimum wage workers need to clock in over 50 hours each week to be able to afford rent on a one-bedroom home.

American University staff in the Academic Affairs Staff Union went on strike Monday. The union has been in negotiations with the university over wages for months. Megan McGrath reports.

The Academic Affairs Staff Union authorized a strike on Aug. 11 for five days, starting on Monday. The negotiations are over wages and have been going on between the university and the union for months.  

As the cost of living continues to rise, workers may be forced to find a job that pays better. Many already have.

Out of 250 metropolitan areas in the U.S., women under 30 are paid the same or more than men in 22 of them, according to the Pew Research Center.

As prices spike, workers are running out of money faster: Now, 1 in 5 say they can’t make it from paycheck to paycheck.

Millions of American are quitting and starting new jobs at record pace while job openings remain at an all-time high.

President Joe Biden’s 2023 budget could help fund service improvements for Social Security. Some groups had hoped to see more in the president’s proposal.

Project management jobs are quickly becoming a way for people with non-technical backgrounds to earn lucrative tech paychecks.

Madison Das made the switch from strategic marketing to project management within a few months.

Wages are rising, yet the prices consumers must pay for goods and services are rising even faster.

31-year-old Christen Nino De Guzman helped launch content creator programs at tech companies like Instagram and TikTok. But the pay inequality she saw in the industry inspired her to quit her $150,000-a-year job and launch an app called Clara, which lets influencers share the value of their brand deals.

Members pledge to reduce gender pay gaps by 60% in the group’s first year of operation.

Tom Brady retired for 40 days before deciding to give it a go for another season playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Other retirees could take his lead.

One-third of workers who switched jobs during the pandemic took a pay cut in exchange for better work and life balance, according to Prudential.