Career Advice

What Nasty Gal Can Teach Us About the Importance of Corporate Culture

Culture is the glue that keeps a company together, so what happens when that glue comes undone due to growth, restructuring, and new direction? We'll take a look at how this allegedly happened to online apparel brand Nasty Gal and what it teaches us about culture and morale.

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5 Traits That Lady Gaga Has That Every Professional Needs

Here are five traits that Lady Gaga has that can help professionals create stand-out personal brands of their own.

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Pyrotechnician Salary: Fireworks for Pay

How much does a pyrotechnician earn for a salary? Find out here.

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How to Motivate Your Team With Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Use theories of psychology to motivate your workforce to want to succeed. Meet the needs of your workers, and they'll work better and more happily.

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Who Makes More - Blue Collar Jobs versus White Collar Jobs

Which jobs pay higher salaries, blue collar or white collar?

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Salary Data: Where Does PayScale Get Data? How Do I Know It’s Accurate?

At PayScale, our salary data is the largest real-time online employee salary database in the world. Learn how that database was built.

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Is It Possible to Make Too Much Money?

You're probably more worried about making too little money, not too much. Being overpaid, however, comes with its own brand of peril. Here's how to know if you're earning more than you should, and what to do about it. (Hint: the first step is figuring out if you're just suffering from Impostor Syndrome.)

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What Are the Country's Most Thankless Jobs? [infographic]

Can you guess what service workers have the worst combination of pay & job conditions? Learn about the most thankless jobs in the U.S.

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What Today's Kids Say They Want to Be When They Grow Up

The age-old question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" can yield some pretty interesting results. How children respond says more about us, and the culture, than it does them.