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Payday Proximity Influences Consumer Behavior

Payday proximity changes the way we perceive prices, the way we respond to messages, our motives and our purchase behavior, a new study carried out by University of Utah marketing professors Himanshu and Arul Mishra, reports.You would not think but it is not the actual price of things or the size of the bank account ...

30 August 2010
04:10 GMT

People Paid by the Hour Are Happier

A new scientific research has determined that people who are paid by the hour are a lot happier when it comes to money than those paid only once a month, on payday. The research, which was conducted by researchers at the Stanford University and the University of Toronto, in Canada, suggests that this correlation may ...

25 January 2010
21:01 GMT

Kiefer Sutherland Makes $550,000 for Each ‘24’ Episode

They say there is only one person that can make Chuck Norris cry and that person is Jack Bauer, the male lead in the highly successful series “24.” However, Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland, is not only incredibly strong, he also brings in the good money, with Hello Magazine saying that Sutherland ...

12 August 2009
10:25 GMT

‘Alpha,’ Dominant Women Earn More, Study Says

Personality traits play an important part in one’s appreciation at the work place, both from a personal and a professional / financial point of view. While it’s common sense that those who display eagerness and conscientiousness be paid more than those who can be described as slackers, a new study comes t...

14 July 2009
13:21 GMT

Good Looks and Intelligence Are Key for a Higher Salary

It’s by now common practice to say that someone landed a job or a job interview on their good looks alone, even if not justified all the time. A new study comes to point out that, should this be the case, good looks also helps when it comes to being appreciated at work, beautiful people earning more than those ...

21 May 2009
16:31 GMT

Tall Men Earn More, Study Shows

As talk of the pay gap between men and women continues, with contradictory figures not being able to perfectly represent the reality at the workplace, it seems that differences in terms of salary also apply within the same gender, as a new study points out. Consequently, tall men earn considerably more than their sho...

19 May 2009
16:21 GMT

Women Choose to Stay Single to Earn as Much as Men

The issue of whether men and women earn the same salary, or of whether they should or not throughout their lives, has long been under discussion. Figures just published by the British Office for National Statistics show that females have finally found a way to earn the same amount as their male coworkers, and that is...

16 February 2009
14:41 GMT

Apple Engineers Paid Below-Market Salaries

Apple is allegedly paying its software engineers very little money compared with rival companies, TechCrunch is reporting, pointing to a Glassdoor find. According to the ratings and reviews from Glassdoor, "the average [salary] based on ten submissions is $97,840."That's a yearly salary, of course "and the range...

19 June 2008
16:21 GMT

How About a $315,000 Raise?

An unwritten rule to receiving gifts is that you should say thank you politely and smile, and after that you can do with it what you please, either throw it away or use it, or, even better, exchange it for its intrinsic value in cash. Susan Decker doesn't have to worry about these problems, her "gift" is hard cu...

3 December 2007
10:16 GMT

Yahoo: $1 Salary, $80M Compensation

Terry Semel, Yahoo's chairman, received a $80 million compensation for his $1 salary after his stock options were highly increased at the end of the last year. Back in 2006, the Yahoo chairman reduced his salary to no more than $1, receiving more stock options that are now bringing a huge amount of money. Accord...

1 May 2007
09:47 GMT


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