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How Money Are You: Prime Time's Top-Earning Women
Forbes released an exposé on prime time's top-earning women this week and some of the names and stats are a shocker for those of us who are used to hearing gigantic Tinseltown salaries. Sure, they still make millions more than most of us, but the recession has hit Hollywood. The article notes "Jerry Seinfeld-era paydays (the sitcom star one earned $1 million per episode plus tens of millions in back-end profits) are no longer practical, much less expected."
Relating to the Office: Raise Talk Isn't Easy For Anyone
On this week's episode of The Office corporate alerts Jim and Michael that there won't be funds to give everyone a raise and the co-managers are tasked with telling the team the crushing news.
Jim makes his first big call by announcing only the salespeople will receive raises. This immediately insights panic and questions from the ranks.
Guess How Much The Hills Cast Makes Per Episode
Everyone's favorite guilty pleasure show, The Hills, returned to TV last night for its sixth season. Lauren Conrad may have moved on, but her Laguna Beach classmate Kristin Cavallari proved to be an entertaining addition to the neighborhood. Do you know how much the crew pulls in per episode of the show?
Has Your Boss Ever Pitted You Against a Co-Worker?
On this week's Rachel Zoe Project, Rachel makes a questionable management move and invites Brad and Taylor to Paris before realizing one of them is going to have to stay behind at the studio. When she becomes aware of her mistake, she tells them they should decide amongst themselves who will go, thinking Brad will volunteer to stay home.
The suggestion immediately becomes an issue for Brad and Taylor.
How Not to Behave: Career Lessons Learned From Mad Men
When it comes to workplace drama, Mad Men has it all: high-stakes accounts, employees fighting for promotions and power, interoffice affairs, drinking on the job, and professional talent clouded by shenanigans, secrecy, and even sexual harassment. Whenever I watch the show I am both captivated by the saucy situations and characters and thankful for how far we have come as professionals since the 1960s.
The plotlines that evolve within the powerful Sterling Cooper agency and its smart but unruly ad men and women are dramatized for our viewing pleasure, but it is true that office culture has changed substantially in the last 40 years.
Do You Know Who Earns What on TV?
TV Guide magazine's yearly Who Earns What? edition, which shows off TV's highest paid actors, hits newsstands today and the salaries are staggering despite the economy. Do you think you know how much your favorite TV power women and men pull in for their pretty faces, comedic timing, and acting chops?
Do You Know Your TV Power Women?
In the early days of television famous females primarily played the roles of loving mother, homemaker, nurse, and second fiddle to the main man. Thankfully, everything has changed. As female queens, leaders, and politicians have become more and more dominant, and women take over the workplace, women have naturally taken over the small screen as power-suit-wearing leading ladies.
Watch: Marisa Tomei Is Wild About Emergency Funds
The stars came together to prove many points in ABC's UN-BROKE: What You Need to Know About Money, and host Mellody Hobson's intermittent interviews with random Americans on the street were evidence that most people need to learn those money lessons. This statistic really stood out: the average American family has $10,000 in credit card debt spread across five high interest cards. If only minimum payments are made, it would take 58 years to pay off the $10,000.
Will Smith, Rosario, Jonas Bros, Acting Out Money Basics
Some things you need to see to believe, and tonight's one-hour special UN-BROKE: What You Need to Know About Money might just be one of them. ABC has put together a star-studded cast to teach the fundamentals of finance in an unconventional way. The program will be broken into segments featuring Will Smith, Samuel L.
11 Real-Life Lessons Learned From the Celebrity Apprentice
NBC has already given the nod to a ninth season of Donald Trump's Apprentice, so the show must be speaking to viewers. Sure, it's reality entertainment, but there are real-life lessons to be found in each episode of this season's Celebrity Apprentice. We had to get something valuable out of those two-hour segments, right?
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