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The Great Recession Pay Penalty

Searching for your first job during the Great Recession was a nightmare. But there is good news: your bad luck won’t haunt you forever.

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Average Americans Don’t See Average Wage Growth

This summer, news has broken that wage growth is up, down, and flat. What gives? The fact is that earnings are keeping pace with inflation for some groups, and falling behind for others - sometimes far, far behind.

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Inner City Blues: City Real Wages in the Decade Since the Great Recession

Real wages have not recovered their pre-recession levels. The squeeze on real wages has been particularly severe in some of the hottest markets. Meanwhile, things don’t look so bleak in some overlooked cities – but for all the wrong reasons.

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How the Payscale Index Differs from Other Economic Indicators

While the Payscale Index is often compared to the Employment Cost Index, they are not tracking the same thing, but both measures are important signals.

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Top Paying Non-Clinical Skills in Healthcare

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Pricing the Top Paying Nursing Skills

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Gender Inequity Three Ways: Means, Medians, and Modes

Last fall, Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams had to reshoot some scenes in All the Money In the World after Christopher Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey. We were shocked to learn that Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million for these reshoots, while Williams was paid less than $1,000. Stories like these put faces on the injustice of gender pay inequities, but statistics have the power to reveal how widespread the issue really is. In this post, we’ll show how we can use differences in common averages – means, medians and modes – to calculate the gender pay gap.

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