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 ...

A variable annuity is a tax-deferred retirement vehicle that allows you to choose from a selection of investments, and then pays you a level of income in retirement that is determined by the ...

FORTUNE -- As Ronald Reagan was so fond of saying: "There you go again." That's right, there Fortune goes again with another 100 great things about America. This is Fortune's third annual list ...

Obama administration outlines plans for more Arctic oil drilling, but says new leases won't be granted until 2016 to allow more time for studies. More ...

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 ...

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 ...

A deductible IRA can lower your tax bill by allowing you to deduct your contributions on your tax return - you essentially get a refund on the taxes you paid earlier in the year. You fund a ...

That's the good news. The bad news is that 2008 is the Year of the Rat. 2 Eli Lilly: Thank God. We've been so worried since Lucky dyed his hair jet black and started listening to the Smiths.

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Labor, the agency provided CNNMoney with so-called EEO-1 Employer Information Reports for Cisco, Dell, eBay, Ingram Micro ...

Start by looking at your income. There are income limits for Roth IRAs, so if your income is above those limits, then it's a no-brainer: a traditional IRA is the only one for you. Let's say you're ...

The old rule of thumb used to be that you should subtract your age from 100 - and that's the percentage of your portfolio that you should keep in stocks. For example, if you're 30, you should keep ...

Less education, on top of physical or mental impairments, makes it hard to find work or maintain a full-time job… Which in turn, makes it difficult to earn enough to get by… The poverty rate ...