Josie Cox

1 week ago | forbes.com | Josie Cox

Getting an MBA tends to boost earnings significantly for both women and men, but it’s not helping to close the gender pay gap, new research shows. A survey of more than 1,000 graduates from elite MBA programs across the U.S., Europe and Canada, found that in the first post-MBA job, women’s salaries, on average, rose 52% to $131,449 from their last pre-MBA role. Men’s, meanwhile, surged 73% to $140,007.

1 week ago | drumup.io | Josie Cox

Getting an MBA tends to boost earnings significantly for both women and men, but it’s not helping to close the gender pay gap, new research shows. A survey of more than 1,000 graduates from elite MBA programs across the U.S., Europe and Canada, found that in the first post-MBA job, women’s salaries, on average, rose 52% to $131,449 from their last pre-MBA role. Men’s, meanwhile, surged 73% to $140,007.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Josie Cox

The average pay of the world’s wealthiest corporate bosses hit $4.3 million last year, a 50 percent increase over what they pocketed just five years earlier, a new report shows. According to the report, published by Oxfam and based on data from S&P Capital IQ, the jump in CEO pay dramatically outpaced the real wage growth of the average worker over the same five-year period. In fact, CEO wages rose by 56 times more than worker wages did.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Josie Cox

Workforce engagement declined around the world last year, costing the global economy about $438 billion in lost productivity, according to new research conducted by Gallup. According to the consultancy, the percentage of employees around the world who indicated that they felt “engaged” at work slipped from 23% to 21% in 2024, with managers feeling particularly demotivated and disengaged. Over the past 12 years, this measure has only declined twice, Gallup noted, the other time being in 2020.

2 months ago | forbes.com | Josie Cox

American teenagers today place less importance on getting married and having children than they do on finding a job that’s satisfying and on achieving financial success, a new study shows. The survey of over 1,300 teenagers aged between 13 and 17, and conducted by the Pew Research Center, found that 86% of respondents said that it was extremely or very important to them to have a job or career they enjoy when they’re an adult.