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Seasonal Hiring Steady for 2015 Holiday Season, but is Pay Spiraling Downward?

Compensation Today

Taylor, PHR, SHRM-CP, PayScale Senior Blogger This time of year always sees an increase in hiring additional people to cover the busy holiday season, at least on a temporary basis. While seasonal hiring remains steady for 2015, hourly wages are disappointing at best. per hour, which is down from $17.50 What do you think?

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PayScale Index: U.S. Wages Grow for 8th Consecutive Quarter

Compensation Today

grew for the eighth consecutive quarter, according to the newly updated PayScale Index. The typical employees earning power is holding steady and is up slightly from a period of depressed and stagnant real wages from 2013 – 2015. Download the Q2 2017 PayScale Index. Wages in the U.S. wages increased 0.5 percent since Q2 2016.

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PayScale Gender Wage Study Extracts Unexpected Industry Disparity

Compensation Today

Indeed, despite all the buzz around sexism in Silicon valley, new PayScale research shows that it is actually the Oil & Gas industry where the largest gender wage gap exists. PayScale study shows the largest #gender #wage gap is in the #oil and #gas industry! Answer: they’re both rock bottom low. Click To Tweet.

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Workers Hit Pay Dirt—PayScale Index Reveals Big Growth in Energy Sector

Compensation Today

Taylor, CPC, PHR, SHRM-CP, PayScale Senior Blogger From the blistering cold Natural Gas plains of the Northwestern US to the oil rich marshes of the Southeastern US, thousands of job seekers arrive daily in search of good paying jobs. The good news is that unemployment numbers have plummeted in the final quarter of 2015 (down to 5.1

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Top Performing Company Pay Practices: 2016 PayScale Report

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The 2016 report, which surveyed more than 7,600 business leaders from a wide variety of industries and sizes, for the first time compared the pay practices of top-performing companies—defined as companies that were first in their industry and exceeded revenue projections in 2015—against all respondents.

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Closing the Tech Talent Gap: 5 Cities Where Techies are Flocking

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As of January 2015, the report counted nearly 600,000 advertised job openings in computer and mathematical science in the U.S., Here are five cities that, according to Indeed's report, made the most headway in attracting new techies and closing the talent gap from 2013 to 2015: 1. Decrease in tech talent gap from 2013 to 2015: 51%.

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Equal Pay Movement Gaining Momentum in U.S.

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According to a survey by PayScale, women in Vermont earn 87 cents for every dollar earned by men. PayScale found that nationally, women earn 79 cents for every dollar earned by men. The lawsuit is asking for class-action status, which would allow former national team players from 2015 onward to participate.

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