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What should my incentives be for international travel?

I am a software consultant at a relatively small firm (under 50 employees). Recently, the company en...

Is it fair to treat salaried and hourly employees differently in reviews?

Is it legal to give hourly employees reviews more frequently than salaried personnel?...

From Marginal to Mainstream

In 1982, the Village Voice started the trend of offering domestic-partner benefits, or benefits an e...

Safeguarding Your Finances

The purpose of insurance is to protect people against financial disaster when they are unable to ear...

Running Effective Meetings

At the end of a business meeting, the organizer summarizes the decisions the group has made, lists t...

How HR Pros Can Use Online Compensation Data

Many sources of data can be found on the Internet that reveal compensation practices with regard to ...

Industry Commitment to Training

In a study by the American Society for Training and Development, more than 750 U.S organizations pro...

Is my on-call pay competitive?

I have researched all over about what kind of compensation you should get for being on call, but hav...

Can I fix a salary negotiation mistake before a job offer?

I just made a huge mistake in a salary negotiation and am wondering if there is something I can do t...

Ten Ways to Prepare for an Emergency Job Search

In a recent Salary.com poll, 26 percent of respondents said they had already been laid off, 37 perce...

A Sample Stock Option Plan

Stock option plans are the large contracts that govern stock options programs. Stock option agreemen...

What do employers mean by "the equivalent"?

What exactly is meant by the word equivalent in the phrase "four-year degree or equivalent"?...

Should part-timers make a little extra in base pay?

A prospective employer has told me that part-time employees receive a lower hourly pay than full-tim...

Types of Meetings

Managing meetings effectively is a core skill every manager should develop. Although there's no myst...

Pay Structures

A company's pay structure is the method of administering its pay philosophy. The two leading types o...

The Science of Schmooze

It's half an hour before an executive schmooze-fest at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he is...

Should I have gotten a bigger raise with my HR promotion?

I started with my present company in Raleigh, NC, in February as an HR assistant on a temp-to-hire b...

Index Funds

Who has the time, interest, or confidence to pick and track individual stocks (unless, of course, it...

What should my daily contract rate be?

How much per hour should a per diem CPA make in the Jackson, Mississippi, metropolitan area? I'm con...

Eager to Please

I have an interview tomorrow with a prominent company and am very eager to please them. Can you give...

Can my employer pay me less in a region with a higher cost of living?

In August 2000, I relocated by choice. When I relocated, I couldn't keep the same position with my c...

Should I disclose that I saw the pay range for the job?

Do I have a right to view the compensation band for my title? ...

Can my employer put me on a time clock?

As a salaried exempt supervisor, I have been given more than 40 hours of work per week, had pay cuts...

Should I counteroffer a negotiated salary offer?

I received an offer lower than my desired salary. I talked it over with HR, and they met me almost h...

Project Manager

All of us practice project management in our lives, whether we know it or not. We are all involved i...

Should I be paid more for doing two jobs?

Two weeks ago I took a part-time job as an x-ray technician. In the classified ad the employer liste...

Computer Programming Career Education and Advancement

Computer Programmers are responsible for creating code that essentially tells a computer how to oper...

Can an exempt position become nonexempt?

What if my company doesn't know the market value of my job?

I have been trying to contact my human resource department to get a fair market value (pay range) fo...

Should I leave my startup to seek a better salary and title?

I joined my current company (Pre-IPO) right out of school as a junior QA engineer testing our produc...

Can my boss get away with nepotism in pay raises?

My boss has cut back my hours because of budgetary concerns, yet she has "found" the money in her b...

Interpreting Numbers

Before negotiating an executive salary with a current or new employer, take some time to reflect on ...

Revising Job Description

I have been working as a human resources assistant for the last two and a half years. Although I had...

12 Ways to Get out of Credit Card Debt

Everybody with a credit card knows it's smart to pay what you owe at the end of every month - right?...

How should I calculate a part-time rate?

When accepting a part-time position in an office and asked about salary requirements, what is the ap...

Option Grant Practices in High-Tech Companies

Until it became common practice in the last decade to offer stock options to a relatively broad spec...

Pay Philosophies

A pay philosophy is a company's commitment to how it values employees. A consistent pay philosophy g...

How long until my next raise?

My annual performance evaluation was conducted in February. My position was newly created, and no sa...

Salary Basics

Salary.com estimates that at least one employee in ten has viewed compensation information on the In...

Must I settle for a 3 percent increase?

I work in a hospital in Florida as a computer operator. Before this I was a computer operator at ano...

Do I have to return my signing bonus?

I received a $5,000 signing bonus when I was hired by my company, with the promise that I would stay...

How to Invest in a 401(k) or Other Retirement Plan

Not sure how much to contribute to your retirement plan every month? That's easy: Put in as much as ...

Everyone's a Critic

How to Roll Over Your Retirement Accounts

What happens to your retirement accounts if you change jobs? First of all, it's your money and no on...

You're It! How Layoffs Happen and What to Expect

Michelle Babineau of Boston, Mass. has been laid off three times in seven months. The dot-com vetera...

The Salary Wizard says I'm underpaid - what can I do?

I'm a mailroom clerk for a publishing company and make $17,889 a year before taxes. I logged on to S...

Telephone Manners

After establishing contact with the party you're trying to reach, you should be ready to use the tim...

Should I ask for $25,000 more?

I was hired four years ago as a desktop technician for a Fortune 500 company. Since then I have sky...

Genetic Counselor

Shannon Martin [not her real name] sees more than a dozen patients a week, demystifying scientific j...

When and How to Negotiate

To negotiate your pay package, you first need to identify the right opportunity. It is true that any...

Industry News

Show Plans Laser Tribute

Special events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser, including a "Cirque d...

Flir Delivers 100,000th IR Camera

Camera maker Flir Systems Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore., said it will deliver its 100,000th commercial-u...

Omicron Names Singapore Rep.

Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH of Rodgau, Germany, has expanded its worldwide sales network by ...

Wal-Mart Selects Cree LEDs

Cree Inc., an LED manufacturer located in Durham, N.C., has been selected to provide energy-efficien...

Veridiam Names New CFO

Veridiam of El Cajon, Calif., announced that Robert Mazzacavallo has been named its chief financ...

AMD Lasers Forms Alliances

Indianapolis-based AMD Lasers announced strategic partnerships with 1-800-Dentist, Fortune Managemen...

Changelight Orders Aixtron System

Semiconductor technology company, Aixtron AG, located in Germany, announced that China-based LED dev...

Machine Vision Standards Set

Three machine vision trade associations signed an agreement today at the Vision 2009 show in Stuttga...

Momentive Awarded $4.5M

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has granted Momentive Performance Materials $4.5 million to develo...

Acal Acquiring BFi Optilas

Electronic components manufacturer Acal has agreed to acquire France-based electronic and photonic c...

Raytheon Opticals Nab $6.9M

The Office of Naval Research has awarded defense contractor Raytheon Co. a $6.9 million, phase two c...

Zygo CEO to Retire

Zygo Corp. of Middlefield, Conn., announced that CEO J. Bruce Robinson will retire when a successor ...

Morse to Advise Dynasil

Kenneth P. Morse, founding managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, has been hired by W...

Laser Light Engines Hires CEO

Laser Light Engines of Salem, N.H., has hired Doug Darrow, former general manager of Texas Instrumen...

Litho Process Awarded $900K

Cornell scientists who have invented a way of processing organic devices with a patent-pending proce...

IRphotonics Opens Apps Center

IRphotonics of Hamden, Conn., a manufacturer of infrared-based materials and systems, has announced ...

Hudson Heads BAE Systems in US

England-based defense contractor BAE Systems plc announced today that Linda Hudson will serve as...

Irish Fund Young Researchers

The Irish government has awarded €7.9 million (about $11.8 million) to 15 young researchers at seven...

CEO Arrested for Assault

StockerYale CEO Mark W. Blodgett was arrested Oct. 13 for allegedly assaulting the company’s former ...

Fraunhofer USA Turns 15

Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest institution for applied research, is celebrating...

Schott Plant to Add 150 Jobs

A contract to manufacture transparent glass-ceramic armor for the defense industry will mean adding ...

Raydiance Sets Milestone

Petaluma, Calif.-based laser company Raydiance Corp. announced it has made a major breakthrough in m...

Byer to Chair Mobius Board

Mobius Photonics of Santa Clara, Calif., a producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources, has nam...

Dymax Names LaCroce Director

Dymax Corp., manufacturer of advanced light-curable adhesives, coatings and curing equipment, an...

Yale Engineer Wins Fellowship

Yale University in New Haven, Conn., announced that Hong Tang, an assistant professor of enginee...

Spectros Names Distributors

Spectros of Portola Valley, Calif., a developer of advanced molecular sensing and imaging devices fo...

Sumitomo Acquires Aviza

Sumitomo Precision Products Co. (SPP), a semiconductor technology company based in Japan, announced ...

Boeing Makes Leadership Changes

Chicago-based Boeing Capital Corp. announced that Walt Skowronski, president, will retire at the end...

Raytheon Taps Cornet for Contract

Cornet Technology Inc. announced that it has received and shipped an order from defense contractor R...

StockerYale Sells to Coherent

Laser, optical fiber and LED maker StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., announced today that it has sold...

Cree Adds Green Jobs in NC

Cree Inc., a manufacturer of LED lighting products based in Durham, N.C., announced the expansio...

Universal Display Nabs DoE Grants

Ewing, N.J.-based Universal Display, developer of OLED technologies and materials, has been awarded ...

Osram Sylvania Launches Contest

Automotive lighting maker Osram Sylvania of Hillsboro, N.H., and the College for Creative Studies (C...

Epilog Names Challenge Winner

CO2 and fiber laser systems maker Epilog Laser of Golden, Colo., today announced that Maarten Va...

Dilas Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Dilas, a diode laser company located in Mainz, Germany, is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. What...

IQE to Acquire NanoGaN

Semiconductor wafer maker IQE plc announced that it will acquire UK-based NanoGaN Ltd for approximat...

Asylum Orders Surge 60% in Q3

Atomic force and scanning probe microscope (AFM/SPM) maker Asylum Research says its orders for the t...

3-D TV, Bio-optics Hot at FiO

The future of 3-D TV, laser fusion and exawatt lasers, bio-optics breakthroughs and illumination-awa...

Mobius Laser Used at Max Planck

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mobius Photonics, producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green,...

Sharp Opens 10th-Gen. LCD plant

Operations have started at the new Sharp Display Products Corp.’s 10th-generation LCD panel plan...

Reinl Joins Dilas Sales Team

Dilas Industrial Laser Systems announced that Stefen Reinl has joined its sales team in Mainz, Germa...

Kodak Amends CEO's Contract

Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., announced that its board of directors and Chairman and CEO Ant...

Science Medalists Named

Pioneers in the fields of astronomical telescope building, computer simulation, and medical imaging ...

LightPath Loss Narrows in Q4

Optics manufacturer LightPath Technologies Inc. announced last week that its net loss for the fourth...

Nagarajan Named IET Fellow

Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, senior director of optical component technology at Infinera in Sunnyval...

PI Names New Managers

Princeton Instruments (PI) of Trenton, N.J., announced that Ed Gooding has been promoted to product ...

Atom-moving Marks 20 Years

Twenty years ago today, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control...

IPG Offers Retrofit Services

Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., has introduced laser retrofit services at it...

QuantaSol Gains Tech to Boost PVs

QuantaSol Ltd. of Kingston-upon-Thames, England, a maker of strain-balanced quantum well solar cells...

Indium Buys NanoFoil Maker

Materials supplier Indium Corp. announced Tuesday it has acquired Reactive NanoTechnologies Inc. (RN...