Workers in California and Washington State will get more pay transparency

Do you know how much your job is worth? Millions of Americans are finally getting the answer.  Starting Jan. 1, California and Washington state will require employers to include pay ranges with their ...

Opinion: Opinion: Household wealth falls $13.5 trillion, second worst drop on record

American households lost about $6.8 trillion in wealth over the first three quarters of 2022 as the stock market SPX, -0.73%   DJIA, -0.90%   COMP, -0.70% shed more than 25% of its value, the Federal ...

Job switchers saw a greater increase in salary than people who decided to stay put. Here’s what’s at stake.

It pays to look around. The number of job switchers reporting wage gains has expanded while the number of job stayers reporting wage gains actually contracted as inflation exacts its toll, according t...

The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed

By Dion Rabouin | Photographs by Dina Litovsky for The Wall Street Journal July 25, 2022 5:30 am ET Mark Yu had a profitable pandemic. Like many Americans, he added to his savings and pulled in big ga...

Looking for $100,000 Salary? See How Much the Biggest U.S. Companies Pay Workers

By John Stensholt and Nate Rattner May 31, 2022 7:00 am ET Wages for the median workers at the majority of big American companies are higher than they were before the pandemic, with the tight job mark...

Opinion: The Fed must boost rates by a full percentage point at every meeting to bring down inflation and avoid a job-killing recession

The Fed has taken aim at inflation, but it isn’t moving fast enough. Earlier this month the Fed boosted the federal funds rate by half a point, and more half and quarter point increases are almost cer...

For White-Collar Workers, It’s Prime Time to Get a Big Raise

White-collar professionals are reaping big pay gains as worker bargaining power spreads across the U.S. economy and shows early signs of durability. Wall Street banks are boosting compensation for emp...

Opinion: The party’s over: The Fed and Congress have pulled their support from workers and investors

Even as the government reports the fastest economic growth in nearly 40 years, the historic gains in income and wealth that inflated the economy in 2020 and 2021 are fading fast. The air is coming out...