Overtime pay often allows rank-and-file county employees, like sheriff's deputies and corrections officers, to earn more than their bosses. District attorneys are frequently the highest-paid elected ...

After meticulously polishing application materials, hitting submit during the early admissions round, and enduring the agonizing wait for an admissions decision, thousands of students opened their ...

A total of 385 county employees in New York got paid more than $300,000 last year as some local leaders struggled to limit overtime costs for their taxpayer-supported government workforce, state data ...

Wyoming employers participating in the state’s workers’ compensation program will experience a 15% break in premiums next year, the third rate reduction in as many years. That will result in a ...

With the holiday season upon us, one personal finance site is sounding the alarm on a ubiquitous retail payment plan that many Americans say should be outlawed. It’s called “deferred interest." In a ...

Artificial intelligence can do the work currently performed by nearly 12% of America's workforce, according to a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The researchers, relying ...

I tend to assume people who work in artificial intelligence live like the Jetsons. Even if they don’t have robot maids, surely they automate as many tasks as possible, right? Stella Dong is a ...

President Donald Trump’s admission to Fox News host Laura Ingraham that the United States workforce lacks “certain talents and people,” and should therefore expand the H-1B visa program, has stirred a ...

The Senate is working to finalize a bipartisan funding package and House members were told late Sunday to be ready for votes on a reopening plan this week, pending Senate passage. But with no firm ...

In today’s tight labor market, companies are seeking competitive advantages to attract and retain top talent. In this Crain’s Quick Take, Mindi Johnson, an employee benefits attorney at Foster Swift, ...

Economists and psychologists say that compensation may not provide as powerful an incentive as is often assumed. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen, the global economics correspondent, is based in ...