In most managerial, management-related, sales, production, and transportation occupations, workers with longer hours earned a high hourly rate. The reverse was true for some jobs, including computer specialists, engineers, schoolteachers, and construction workers. (JOW)

Salary guide data and average increases are presented in tabular form. School units are grouped by district. (MC)

From 1979 to 1989, the earnings gap between immigrants and native high school dropouts remained virtually unchanged, but it increased substantially in areas of high immigration. The growing proportion of immigrant high school dropouts explains some of the earnings change. (Author)

In 1999, women earned 77% as much as men. Current Population Survey data indicate that personal choices, occupational crowding, and discrimination contribute to the gender gap. However, the high proportion of women in an occupation is the largest contributor to the salary differential. (Contains 16 references.) (Author/JOW)

More than one-fifth of employed persons with disabilities work late or rotating shifts, about the same as nondisabled workers. Day workers with disabilities receive lower hourly wages than nondisabled workers. Except for men, nonday workers with disabilities receive wages similar to their nondisabled counterparts. (Contains 27 references.)…

Explores changes in the distribution of the pretax wages and salaries of individuals between 1960 and 1980. Examines a series of possible explanations of increasing inequality, rejecting some as unimportant and finding others responsible for some parts of increases in inequality. (JOW)

Examines the occupations most and least likely to require standard and long hours. Ranks occupations based on weekly earnings, providing a glimpse of which reward more hours with a bigger paycheck. (Author)

A survey of trainers' (n=2,003) salaries compared salaries based on size of companies, geographic location, level of education, experience, gender, and age. At $60,794, the average training salary is only 2.8 percent higher than last year, compared to a 4.6 percent increase for the average salaried employee. (JOW)

The National League for Nursing surveyed 1,083 agencies on the salaries of nurses employed in both official and nonofficial agencies and by boards of education. (Author/BP)

An analysis of annual earnings distributions finds that earnings inequality increased within several categories of workers; of particular note was the increase for men employed in managerial and sales occupations. (Author)

Although earnings are closely tied to education, more than 10 million people without a college education earned over $30,000 in 1989. (Author)

A study of Albuquerque, New Mexico, provides insight into income stagnation and the future of the economy. Evidence confirms that the roots of the widening income gap are deep and the problem will not soon disappear. (JOW)

In recent years, the gap between high and low earners in the United States has widened. The young, the less educated, and blacks have more instability in their earnings than do those who are older, more educated, or white. (Author)

Among college graduates, women earned 73% as much as men in 1993. However, when earnings of women were compared with those of men in the same major field of study, at the same level degree, and in the same age group, about half the women earned at least 87% as much as the men. (Author)