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Careers Hoping for a Big Raise Next Year? How About 3% (Again)?If a 3% raise sounds familiar, there’s a good reason. It’s the same pay increase most salaried employees got in 2014 and 2015, and can expect again this year. Next year, it seems, will be

Leadership Why the VC’s Are Alright—And Always Will Be William Cohan’s recent cover story in Fortune argued that “a reckoning is coming in the tech world.” That prediction may or may not come true, as research shows that even expert forecasts are

Leadership Why Performance Bonuses and Merit Raises Don’t Work In theory, it sounds like a no-brainer: Come up with a compensation system that rewards and encourages topnotch employees with bonuses and other short-term incentives. Fund it, without blowing up the

Leadership CEO pay: Flatter salaries, but bigger bonuses Your company’s CEO probably doesn’t make 1,951 times your salary, like Discovery Communications’ chief David M. Zaslav, but he (or, far more rarely, she) is still doing all right. While U.S. worker

Leadership Hoping for a raise this year? How about a bonus instead?Ever feel like you’re working harder for less money? It’s probably not all in your head. Although it’s well-known by now that wage growth hasn’t kept up with productivity gains in recent years,

Leadership How to get more than a 3% raise this year At first glance, the latest figures seem to defy the laws of supply and demand. The job market is booming, with more job growth than the U.S. has seen in years. Hiring is up and employers are trying

Management Rhode Island tries to legislate sky-high CEO pay away The widening gap between rich and poor in the U.S. has captured national attention, and while the federal government continues to squabble over what, if anything, to do about it, states are quietly

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