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Learn how the latest employment trends affect your bottom line.
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Employment has more of an effect on your finances than just a paycheck!
It’s obvious to just about anyone that employment has a huge impact your finances. How much income you earn directly dictates your cost of living (or at least, it should). But even beyond that bi-weekly paycheck, your career path affects your finances. It has an impact on your ability to maintain a balanced budget. Your job can determine how easy or hard it is to save for retirement. And it also factors into how much you have to worry about other concerns, like healthcare and life insurance. The articles in this section are all about the financial impact of employment trends today. Below the articles, you can find Debt.com’s tops tips for using your employment to improve your financial situation.
How to Make Focus Groups Your Next Side-Hustle
Getting paid to tell people you what you think is the ultimate way to earn holiday money.
Selling High End Specialty Goods is a Great Side-Hustle
For three years I sold expensive olive oil, and it was a great way to pay off debt.
What Is a Brand Ambassador? If You Like People, This Side Hustle May Be For You
Make at least $20 an hour getting people to try new things…
What Are the Best College Degrees to Get You a Job?
They have the highest employment rates and are expected to grow.
Weird Resume Mistakes and How to Avoid Making Them
People write the craziest things on their resumes and misspell most of it.
Workers Don’t Only Care About Money
Recent studies reveal what employees and employers’ priorities are — and cash isn’t one of them.
Want to Keep Employees? Let Them Work When They Want
Flexibility is the biggest motivator for employees to stay or go.
Older Americans Are Ending Up Bankrupt
They can’t afford to work and live to make ends meet.
Generation X Can’t Keep up With the Gig Economy
The uncertainty of freelance and contract work makes the generation uneasy.
Bosses Are Struggling to Keep Employee Retention at Their Companies
So many workers are either leaving jobs or looking for new ones.
Young People Want to Work for Socially Impactful Companies
Businesses that think of society and employees first are most important to millennials.
Workers Don’t Find Pay Most Important Anymore
More prefer flexible schedules and vacation time now.
Families Are Struggling to Make Money and Stay Together
Money causes stress in relationships, but kids want more time with mom and dad.
Study: Your Boss Should Push You to Vacation More
When vacation time is encouraged at work, employees are more productive.
Are Colleges Failing to Prepare Their Customers?
Year after year students graduate unprepared to earn a living.
Retirement Will Soon Become Extinct
The magic number to retire isn’t an age — it’s a dollar sign.
Men Have More Saved For Retirement Than Women
Millennial guys have two-thirds more saved than girls their age.
Employers Are a Big Reason Millennials are Saving
Only a third of them are saving outside of workplace plans.
Millennials Are Taking Job Promotions Without Pay Raises
Company budgets are too tight to give them both.
College Enrollment Is Down, And It’s Not a Bad Thing
The costs stress people out, and most are relying on loans to pay for school.
More Employees Are Working Outside of the Office
The ability to work anywhere at any time boosts productivity.
Millennials Want to Be Their Own Bosses
More are trying to start businesses and freelance for a living, than working 9-5 jobs.
Men Are More Likely Than Women to Commit Fraud at Work
Women are more honest employees, yet are still paid less.
Your Boss Wants to Give You a $784 Bonus
What’s the catch? You need to learn how to budget — not at work, but at home.
Americans Want Retirement Income Over Savings
Old and young Americans want work-sponsored pension plans.
Women Stress More at Work And Earn Less
Not surprisingly, their largest stressor is money.
College Grads: Bosses Are Hiring And They Want You
And if you don’t get the job, it’s probably your fault.
Will The “Pay Gap” Ever Close?
Women don’t believe they’ll ever earn the same as men.
Hey, New College Grads: Want A Job? Stop Lying
Hiring managers list the 8 biggest mistakes they see from the Class of 2018
8 Things to Know Before Freelancing Full-Time
Don’t allow financial surprises to stall your freelancing momentum.
Closing The “Pay Gap” Would Benefit Everyone
When women advance in their careers – men do too, research says.
Running Late For Work? Don’t Say This
From “it’s too cold,” to “I fell asleep in the parking lot,” people have crazy excuses.
