All posts tagged "raise"

  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je)
    Park to receive 3.4 pct raise

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Cabinet raised President Park Geun-hye’s annual salary by more than 3 percent in a wage hike that also affected all other civic servants across South Korea, officials said Tuesday. Park is set to...

    • Posted January 5, 2016
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  • FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011, a line worker assembles a 2012 Ford Focus at the Ford Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Mich. The jobs report on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, signaled that raises have finally begun to flow through an economy in which, once you factor in inflation, most people earn less than when the Great Recession struck in 2007. Ford has announced that up to 500 of its lowest-paid factory workers will receive a 48 percent pay raise to $28.50 an hour. Other major companies, including Aetna and the Gap, have also announced pay increases. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
    More Americans are finally seeing something new: A pay raise

    WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. economy has steadily recovered from the Great Recession, the critical missing piece has been a painful lack of pay raises for many Americans. Their pain may be easing. Friday’s jobs report...

    • Posted February 6, 2015
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