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1 How-To: Determine If You Can Live on One Income
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2 5 Money Issues Every Couple Should Prepare For
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3 Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter Paycheck: Guess How Much?
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4 Guess Which Supermodel Earned the Most Last Year?
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5 Forbes Ranks College Majors by Average Starting Salary
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6 Ask Savvy: How to Respond When Asked For Salary Requirements
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7 Ask Savvy: Can I Ask About Salary Before the Interview?
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8 5 Ideas to Increase Your Income This Year
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9 Guess How Much the Average Google Employee Makes?
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10 Which Harry Potter Star Said This Money Quote?
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11 The Obamas Pay For Groceries, Just Like Us
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12 Which Top-Earning Talk Show Host Earns More?
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13 How Money Are You: A-Lister Salaries
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14 How-To: Research the Salary You Deserve
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15 Overworked and Underpaid: 7 of the Most Stressful Jobs
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16 Keep Your Maiden Name, Earn $500,000 More?
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17 Foreign Languages and Your Salary
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18 Should You Never Talk Salary With Your Co-Workers?
There are too many families who were taken by surprise when one breadwinner suddenly lost his or her job, but some couples might choose to give up an income for one reason or another. Maybe one person was offered a job in another city, leaving the other one without employment, the couple wants one parent to stay home with the kids, one half of the duo is miserable at work and wants out ASAP, etc. Read more
We talk about love and money quite a bit here on Savvy, and many of you have had a go-round or two with your significant other about the topic. In a new relationship, resolving money issues means adjusting to each other’s spending and saving styles, and coming up with a system you can both live with. But as relationships grow and change, financial situations do too, and many couples find Read more
You're doing everything right — saving and skimping — but somehow that's not enough. If you're not making enough to put aside a good chunk of savings for your retirement account and to pay off your debt, bills, and day-to-day expenses, you probably need to make more income. Here are a couple of ideas to raise your cash flow: Ask for a raise: If you don't ask, you don't get, so resolve to Read more
Most of the time, it's not just money and work-life balance that drives us toward our chosen careers. There are many people who feel like they have a bigger mission in life and want to make a difference in the world with their jobs. CNN compiled a list of 20 high-stress jobs with salaries don't quite compensate their "save the world" efforts. Here are its top five picks: Jobs Median Pay Top Read more
We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! Apparently some things don’t improve with age. According to a study by Payscale.com, women tend to top out their compensation at age 37, while men keep getting raises until age 45. Even more infuriating, while men’s salaries in the study rose to an average of $95,000, women’s plateaued at just $61,000. The good-ish news? Read more
We're always curious to see what other people are making, but less so about disclosing our own. Salary transparency is more common among CEOs at public companies who are required to disclose what they make, but not really among everyday employees working the daily grind. It's easy to see why firms shy away from revealing what their employees make — salary is the biggest source of discontent Read more
Workers won't be satisfied with just any raise. In fact, if the salary hike is too low, it can have the opposite effect and workers might start feeling resentful, according to Psychology Today. Researchers at the University of Northern Iowa found that the pay raise needs to be at least seven or eight percent for the employee to feel satisfied with the increase and to feel incentivized to work Read more
If you're upset about your pay or the promotion you've been wanting for a while that never came, it's time to ask for it! Make sure your manager knows that you're gunning for a raise this year and bring it up at your annual performance review, which should be coming up for many of you. Jim Hopkinson, author of Salary Tutor: Learn the Salary Negotiation Secrets No One Ever Taught You, shared a Read more
If you're job-hunting, don't start sweating when an interviewer asks how much you would like to get paid. Be aware that salary talk might come up during your interview, so make sure you're prepared. Just keep these five tips from Jim Hopkinson, author of Salary Tutor: Learn the Salary Negotiation Secrets No One Ever Taught You, in mind, and you're good to go! "Defer all specific salary talk Read more
This anonymous poster in our Savvy Confessions group wants to know if she deserves a raise. Chime in with your thoughts below. OK, so I have been with my current employer for three years. I have it made! I have wonderful bosses, and have a lot of freedom. My problem is . . . I came to this company straight out of college. The ad online stated that they were looking for someone with no Read more
