US Airways and American Airlines are joining forces in an $11 billion deal to create the world's largest airline.

Not until you reach retirement age. Typically that's 65, though many pension plans allow you to start collecting early retirement benefits as early as age 55. If you decide to start receiving ...

A pension is a retirement account that an employer maintains to give you a fixed payout when you retire. It's a kind of defined benefit plan. Your payout typically depends on how long you worked ...

It was 2001 during the dotcom crash, and Cecilia Pagkalinawan had a tough choice: Raise more money for her startup or let 26 employees go. She set up a meeting with a powerful venture capitalist ...

For this calculator, we define middle class as two-thirds to two times median income for the county. In counties where two-thirds of median income would fall close to the poverty line, we set the ...

States must meet the federal wage baseline of $7.25 for all covered workers. Click here for more coverage of minimum wage.

Not far from the storied venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road, there’s a palatial estate where Masayoshi Son, Silicon Valley’s newest kingmaker, shapes the future. Reaching him requires ...

Any money you contribute from your paycheck is always 100% yours. But company matching funds usually vest over time - typically either 25% or 33% a year, or all at once after three or four years.

Notes: *UK Caribbean territories refers to the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos. **Data for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) does not include service export ...

Not very. The percentage of workers in the private sector whose only retirement account is a defined benefit pension plan is now 4%, down from 60% in the early 1980s. About 14% of companies offer ...

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Think you're paid what you're worth? Explore how your salary compares to the average earnings in your country, then see where your wage sits globally. Find out how your wage compares to the ...