"'Things are looking good,' said Katie Bardaro, the lead economist for PayScale. 'For the first time in a while, people can start to feel confident about where the economy is heading.'"
"The good news comes from PayScale, a company that focuses on compensation data and has the world's largest database of individual employee compensation files. Their updated PayScale Index shows that wages in the largest metros are on the rise."
"PayScale.com recently released its quarterly index on compensation trends and found that average salaries are increasing, not decreasing. What's more, employee confidence may be improving when it comes to fattening paychecks."
"While the industry is growing, wage growth for its employees is declining, according to the PayScale Index. The organization reports that the food-services industry had the only negative wage growth in 2012 among all industries monitored."
"Is it finally time to wave goodbye to the bitter recession? That's the word from a new report out from Seattle's PayScale, which found that wage levels in the U.S. have finally climbed back above the previous high period in the fourth quarter of 2008."
"The PayScale Index tracks how many times private-sector wages have changed since 2006, and found that between Q4 of 2010 and Q4 of 2011, 18 metro areas saw at least some wage growth."
"The area experienced a 2.7 percent increase between first quarter 2011 and first quarter 2012, PayScale Inc. said in the PayScale Index for Q1 2012. The Houston area ranks second only to the Seattle area, which experienced 3.2 percent growth."
"The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue region has seen the largest salary growth in the country since this time last year, according to the Seattle-based PayScale.com payroll index."
"24/7 Wall St. reviewed the five metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the PayScale Index that saw the greatest increase in salaries between 2007 and 2011 to determine why salaries are increasing in these cities the most."
"One of the best ways to visualize the diversity of the U.S. economy is the PayScale Index, which tracks wages by metro and occupation over the last year."
"If you were fortunate enough to have a job, 2011 was a fairly good year for many employees, according to Seattle-based PayScale, which tracks quarterly nominal changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees."
"According to the PayScale Index released Jan. 12, average wages in the Seattle metro area grew by 1.6 percent during 2011, compared to an average rise of 1 percent in the nation as a whole."
"The Fourth Quarter Compensation Index by PayScale Inc. shows wages recovering across all industries in the country's largest metro areas, including construction and manufacturing wages."
"But the economy isn't one giant corporation. It's thousands of giant, medium-sized, and small companies in industries that lived through very different recessions. Here's a look at pay on an industry-by-industry level from our friends at PayScale."
"The Q3 PayScale Index shows energy and high technology wages recovering while construction and hospitality continue to suffer; Seattle, San Francisco, Boston and Houston are the stand-out cities for improved wages."
"The Seattle area led the nation in wage increases during the third quarter, buoyed by the region's strong high-tech industry, according to the a new report from PayScale. The study of the top 20 metro markets in the U.S. put Seattle on top with overall wage increases of 1.9 percent during the quarter. That was just ahead of San Francisco, which showed an increase of 1.6 percent."
"The income level of the average American has taken a hit since the Great Recession, falling to a low at the end of 2009, according to recent reports. But some cities have seen marginal rises in income over the past quarter, according to Payscale.com, which tracks changes in cash compensation for employed U.S. workers in the 20 largest cities."
"The more we learn about the last ten years, the more it seems like not only a Lost Decade, but a Decade of Losses. Wages didn't stagnate. They fell. And they fell especially hard for men who worked in construction and other industries surrounding the epic whirlpool of the real estate industry."
"One piece of decent news in the labor market comes from Seattle-based Payscale, which tracks the change in wages of employed Americans workers, showing trends in compensation for jobs over time. Nationally, the trend continues to be flat to weak. But Seattle, with a 1.9 percent rise in the 12 months ending in the third quarter, led the 20 metros surveyed."
"Driven in part by soaring demand for tech workers, wages in the Seattle area in the third quarter grew at a rate nearly five times the national average, according to Seattle research firm PayScale Inc."
"Average wages have risen 1 percent or more in only six of the nation's 20 largest cities in the last 12 months. Washington barely made the list, with average pay ending the third quarter up 1 percent from a year ago, according to data from compensation tracking firm PayScale Inc."
"The third quarter PayScale Index reveals that South Florida wages declined, year-over-year, as industries such as real estate and construction continue to struggle."
"The PayScale Index for Q3 2011, which tracks quarterly trends in compensation, has been released and over the past year, only six of 20 major metros had wage increases of 1 percent or more."
"The Seattle-based employee compensation data provider's PayScale Index found wages in the Phoenix area had an increase of 0.6 percent in second-quarter 2011 compared with the same period a year earlier."
"The city's pay index score for the second quarter increased 0.6 percent to 107.5 from 106.9 in the same quarter last year, according to figures released this week by PayScale Inc."
"The Dallas area, which includes Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Plano and their surrounding counties, was above the national wage average and has averaged about 1 percent above the national wage growth since the first quarter of 2008, PayScale reported."
"The Seattle-based employee compensation data provider's PayScale Index found that Houston's wages, like the national average, had a year-over-year increase of 0.3 percent in the first three months of 2011 compared to the year-earlier period."
"Total income in San Diego County during the first quarter grew for the first time in nearly two years, according to a salary index maintained by PayScale, Inc..."
"Compensation in greater Phoenix was up from the previous year on the PayScale Index for the first quarter of 2011, leaving the city tied at No. 4 in the nation with the Washington and the Dallas metro area."
"If your wallet feels a little lighter these days, that's because it is. Salaries in Atlanta dipped almost 1 percent in 2010, according to the PayScale Inc. Index."
"The Seattle-based employee compensation data provider's PayScale Index found that Houston's wages, like the national average, had a year-over-year increase of 0.3 percent in the first three months of 2011 compared to the year-earlier period."
"After declining in 2009 and staying mostly flat in 2010, national average wage levels are now no higher than they were at the start of 2008, three years ago, according to a report released Tuesday by PayScale.com."
"That's all according to a national survey released today by PayScale, a Seattle-based firm that collects and organizes salary and compensation data across companies, geographies, and industries."
"Feel like you have a little less money in your pocket? You may not be alone. A new study out from PayScale, the Seattle online compensation and salary service, shows wages remaining relatively flat for the past several quarters both nationally and in Seattle."
