Reasons your pay isn’t going up | Business Insider

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and other top economists say productivity is the key to long-run wage growth for American workers. That would be true — if only the fruits of economic expansion were actually trickling to average incomes. International Monetary Fund

“If the labor market continues to improve, we will see some pickup in wage growth, but we have at the moment low productivity growth,” Yellen told Congress in her last official testimony of her term as Fed chair, which ends early next year. “That wage growth would be greater over time if productivity growth picks up.”

The Interview Question That Employers Should Stop Asking | Entrepreneur

July 12, 2017July 12, 2017 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

During the interview process, the conversation of salary is unavoidable. But is it invasive for employers to ask candidates what their current salary is? Most Americans think so.

In a recent survey by job search website Glassdoor, more than half of the 2,224 respondents, made up of U.S. workers 18 and older, said they do not think employers should ask candidates about their current and past pay. In fact, some people and organizations believe that the traditional interview question can lead to pay inequality practices within companies.

LinkedIn plots a place on the economic graph, launches Salary to chart what we earn | TechCrunch

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LinkedIn — the professionally-oriented social networking platform that’s being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion — has made a play to build what it refers to as “the economic graph“, a concept that combines your profile with LinkedIn’s own analytics and data trove to chart the connections between you, your career, your industry and the wider economy. Today, it’s launching a new product that fits in squarely with that strategy.

LinkedIn Salary, a new portal and tracker to collect and analyse salaries globally, will let users find how much a particular job earns (salary, bonus, and equity data), with the ability to drill down using parameters like years of experience, location, and education level.