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...quarter of those getting jobs next year will be paid between $30,000 and $50,000. The self-reported numbers are similar to last year's, when the median salary for graduating seniors was $40,000 and the mean...
Meanwhile, the bill’s new subsidies are hardly targeted at the have-nots. A family of four making up to $88,200 annually—roughly $30,000 more than the 2008 median household income—will receive subsidies from the legislation. Democrats claim that these changes, plus other minor provisions (like allowing children to remain on their parents’ insurance until age 26 and limiting the amount that smokers can be charged relative to non-smokers for insurance) will reduce the deficit. With nearly $1 trillion in new spending, how could this possibly be true...
Like what? Let me give you some statistics. In 2006 the median income for women was just over $32,000 a year. That's more than 31% less than their male counterparts. You might think those are lower-middle-class, working-class women. But take college women: when they graduate from college, a year out, they're earning 80% of what men make. Ten years out they're earning 69% of what men make. Of the top Fortune 500 companies in 2008, only 15 had a female chief executive. In the Great Recession, 75% of the job losses were sustained...
...bomb is strong, at least according to PayScale, a global online compensation data company. It turns out that Harvard graduates can boast the second-highest mid-career median salary, tied with MIT for $126,000. Only kids from Dartmouth make more mid-career bank...
...ranked their relative wealth based mostly on income and real estate prices. Cambridge came out as the 21st wealthiest center, with a per capita income of $47,938, almost twice the national average of $27,589. And how expensive exactly is a house in Cambridge? With the median price of homes hitting about $579,700, Cambridge is also the third most expensive city in the Northeast region...