Performance-based pay is a road many teachers don’t want to travel. But the newly elected president of one of the country’s largest teachers unions says that in her experience, school-wide bonuses...

A teachers’ union said it is open to President-elect Barack Obama’s effort to tie pay raises to student performance.

A teachers’ union said it supports President-elect Barack Obama in trying to tie pay raises to student performance.

The New York attorney general has asked nine banks that are getting a piece of the Wall Street bailout to turn over information about how they are spending money on executive...

Hawaii lawmakers may be confronted with a sticky issue come January that could involve goring their own oxen _ in this case, their pay raises.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers on Tuesday said government restrictions on executive pay don’t make sense except in instances when the government is propping up a company that would otherwise...

U.S. workers can expect skimpy raises in their base salaries next year, but top performers may still fatten their paychecks with merit compensation.

The 10 highest-paid CEOs for 2007 at Standard & Poor’s 500 companies based on calculations by The Associated Press. The total pay figures are rounded, and are based on the AP’s compensation formula, which adds up salary, perks,...

McClatchy Co., the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher, is freezing pay across the company for a year starting Sept. 1 in the latest effort to hold down costs.

House Democrats pushed through legislation Thursday that would give women new tools to combat pay discrimination.