What Are Jobs And Earnings

Having a job and earning money are a part of everyday life for most people, especially adults. The concept seems fairly straightforward: one works to earn. This volume discerns the difference between a job and a career, as well as how a job can develop into a career. Readers will learn why a community's economy needs jobs, how paying someone to do a job helps the person who is paying them, and even about job loss and its consequences. The text also explains different jobs and their effects on the economy, such as those of professional, production, arts, and government and military jobs.

From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).

John D. Kasarda By all accounts, the United States has led the world in job creation. During the past 20 years, its economy added nearly 40 million jobs while the combined European Economic Community added none. Since 1983 alone, the U. S. gener ated more than 15 million jobs and its unemployment rate dropped from 7. 5 percent to approximately 5 percent while the unemployment rate in much of western Europe climbed to double digits. Even Japan's job creation record pales in comparison to the United States'. with its annual employment growth rate less than half that of the United States over the past 15 years (0. 8 percent vs. 2 percent. ) Yet, as the U. S. economy has been churning out millions of jobs annually, con flicting views and heated debates have emerged regarding the quality of these new jobs and its implications for standards of living and U. S. economic competi tiveness. Many argue that the "great American job machine" is a "mirage" or "grand illusion. " Rather than adding productive, secure, well-paying jobs, most new employment, critics contend, consists of poverty level, dead-end, service sector jobs that contribute little or nothing to the nation's productivity and inter national competitiveness. Much of the blame is placed on Reagan-Bush policies that critics say undermine labor unions, encourage wasteful corporate restructur ing, foster exploitative labor practices, and reduce fiscal support for education and needed social services.

Most people think they should be earning more but lack reliable facts to prove it or don't consider the realities of the marketplace. Others have pay-related questions as they search for jobs, negotiate salary, and plan for their futures: What can I expect to make in a certain job? What will I earn if I move to a bigger city or a different industry? How much money will I make with more education? Based on a current and official U.S. Department of Labor survey of 1.2 million businesses, Salary Facts Handbook gives the most accurate and detailed pay information available on 800 jobs at 11 levels of education and training. No other resource matches its interesting, easy-to-use format; its vast and varied information; its many useful rankings of jobs by demographic, geographic, educational, and other criteria; and the size and validity of its information source.Highlights include the following:Quick salary finder. Salaries for 800 jobs, including starting pay; mean and median pay; and wages by state, metropolitan area, and industry. Occupations are ranked from 1 to 800 by pay.Pay-boosting advice. Negotiate your best salary, learn if you are you underpaid, leverage your skills, and increase your pay.Learn more, earn more. Understand the education-earnings rule'and its exceptions.Eye-opening lists. Compare wages for jobs organized in interesting ways, including by training and education level, industry, and city. Discover how age, gender, veteran status, and other factors affect earnings. Browse lists of federal jobs, industries, states, and metro areas ranked by pay.Official U.S. Department of Labor pay information. Get summaries on issues related to pay, such as hazard pay, minimum wage, overtime pay, tips, commissions, and much more.