NY public worker wages top private sector: study
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Public employees who work for New York   State or its local governments earn more each year than their   private sector peers in 51 of the state's 62 counties,   according to a study released on Sunday.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has doled out pay increases to those who work for him, despite a hiring freeze.
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Private insurers in the Medicare insurance program were paid 12.4 percent more by the government than the health care provided would have cost under traditional Medicare, a report released on Thursday said.
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A new study conducted by two economists finds that people  who drink will make more money than people who don't
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U.S. private sector wage growth  should continue to accelerate in the months ahead on the back  of a healthy employment climate, according to a survey released  on Tuesday.
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Private insurers in the Medicare  insurance program were paid 12.4 percent more by the government  than the health care provided would have cost under traditional  Medicare, a report released on Thursday said.
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Investment banking paid an average weekly wage of $8,367, compared with $841 for all private sector jobs.
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Shift in the U.S. workforce is no longer just about factory workers.  All kinds of jobs that pay middle range -- $17 an hour, or about $35,000 a year -- are vanishing.
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Local authorities are increasingly paying private contractors to provide municipal social services.
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Some contend that low-cost labor in India, China and elsewhere is far from the only thing inhibiting job growth in the United States --  skilled workers just aren't out there. American adults rank 12th in literacy among those of 20 high-income, industrialized countries, according to a study.
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Investment banking paid an average weekly wage of $8,367, compared with $841 for all private sector jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a report issued Thursday.
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Here's a look at some miscellaneous -- and enlightening -- statistics from this year's salary survey.
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Business at factories across New York state improved at an accelerated pace in the past month according to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey posted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Buffalo.
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New York City residents should earn a record $381 billion this year because the thousands of job cuts on Wall Street will have a delayed impact and 2006 was such a profitable one for the financial sector.
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After making record profits, Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs Group reported that it will pay its workers an average of $622,000 this year.
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New Yorkers pay the highest state and  local taxes in the nation, shelling out nearly $131 for every  $1,000 of income in 2002, according to a new study.
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U.S. private employers likely added 158,000 jobs in November, according to a survey by ADP Employer Services released on Wednesday.