#wages

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A clear guide to payroll accounting — what it is, how it works, what it includes (gross pay, withholding, employer taxes, net pay), and why accuracy and compliance are so important.

What Is Payroll Accounting?

[tearsofrefugees]

Germany: Study finds immigrants earn less than non-immigrant counterparts

A study shows that immigrants to Germany on average earn considerably less than non-immigrants. Women are particularly affected by this appa

[californiastatelibrary]

Fresh Data Alert!

CRB has created a new The Value of a Degree interactive. Workers with a college or graduate degree earn more throughout the state, with the largest premium in urban areas, especially the SF Bay Area. The earnings gap between genders is highest in higher-earning state legislative districts.

[peacemore-springs]

Roland Garros Semi Final Wage

This post is a piece of public pedagogy on the repeating and developing nature of pocketing wealth i.e. the making of pockets for wealth to exist in.

Great thanks and congratulations to all competitors at Roland Garros. Below is a median estimate of the hourly wage for those of us who have staked a place in the semi final round.

≈ €68,000 per hour

A Roland‑Garros semi‑finalist earns €750k, and with about 11 hours of total court time to reach that stage, the median hourly pay rate (both female and male combined) works out to roughly €68k for every hour actually played.

(quarter final losers leave us with €470,000)

[peacemore-springs]

Roland Garros Quarter Final Wage

Great thanks and congratulations to all competitors at Roland Garros. Below is a median estimate of the hourly wage for those of us who have staked a place in the quarter final round.

(fourth round losers leave us with €285,000)

[infamousbrad]

The Rent is Not Too Damned High ...

... in 2024 45.5% of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities. ... That precarity is partly due to the gap between inflation and wages. In 2024, national wages saw just a small 1.3% bump, well below the rate of inflation of 2.9% that year, according to the Census Bureau. "My main takeaway is that when we talk about affordability, we've been focusing on inflation. But there's the income side of the story that we often do not talk about," said Andre Perry, the director of Brookings' Center for Community Uplift.

This is how close American households are to the financial edge

A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

I remember hearing about a short-lived political movement about 20 years ago, often called frivolous by journalists: the The Rent is Too Damned High Party. It got me interested in a question that I look into from time to time, and I long ago came to the lasting conclusion that, except for some very narrow cases that don't apply to almost any of us, landlords are not raking in huge bucks.

The rent is not too high, you're not being paid enough.

Private sector lenders and the Federal Reserve are deliberately keeping unemployment just barely high enough to undermine everybody's ability to ask for wage increases, because of their (mistaken) belief that the stagflation disaster of 1973-'83 was caused by a wage-price spiral. As a result of this bipartisan policy decision, median wages have declined relative to inflation every year since 1985.

And now 45% of the country's working families are having to take on debt that they'll never be able to pay off just to pay for housing, heating, food, and transportation, let alone health care or education, and the number keeps going up.

Half the workers in this country are making less than a living wage, and the remaining people to tax, to pay for the subsidies it takes for them to be able to make it to those sub-living-wage jobs, goes down every year. We have yet to see how much worse it can get, but we know that Stein's Law is a plain old tautology: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

[peacemore-springs]

Grand Slam Tennis Earnings Per Hour

For those of us leaving the Roland Garros tournament today in the fourth round. Here is a breakdown of your time spent on court and your earnings for having competed so well in the French Open tournament.

🎾 1. How many hours has a typical R16 player (loser) spent on court?

A realistic average for a men’s or women’s player having reached the Round of 16 at Roland‑Garros is:

Round 1: ~2.5 hours

Round 2: ~2 hours

Round 3: ~2.5 hours

Round 4 (loss): ~2.5 hours

Total: ~9.5 hours of match play (Anywhere between 8–12 hours is normal depending on match length.)

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Helper and Laborer Pay Is the Early Warning of Skilled-Trade Wage Inflation

Helper pay is the early warning. New research out in the Journal of Management in Engineering (2025) analyzed 24 years of construction wage data and found unskilled and helper wages climbed 2.75-3.5% per year — and those moves statistically predicted the skilled-trade raises that followed.

Translation for HVAC shop owners: you've been watching the wrong number.

Most owners track competitor journeyman pay because that's who walks out the door for a $2 raise. Helpers feel captive. They're not. When unskilled construction wages climb, your green techs have options — solar crews, new-construction GCs, warehouse jobs. Backfill costs rise, compresses the gap to mid-level techs, and the whole ladder has to reprice.

The practical move:

Pull BLS Occupational Employment Statistics helper and laborer wages for your metro. Drop them in a spreadsheet next to your own helper pay. When the market number pulls ahead by more than 5%, you're about 12 months from losing a journeyman.

California already ran this movie. Minimum wage at $16.50, helpers at $22-26/hr. The next journeyman repricing cycle is already queuing up.

Caveat: construction-engineering journal, not pure labor economics. Signal is strongest in active commercial-construction metros. But if you're in Austin, Phoenix, Nashville, or the Inland Empire, the data is loud enough to act on.

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