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Blue-collar jobs in manufacturing, aviation and energy are not only in high demand, but also offer salaries that rival those of many white-collar professions.

Many low-stress, high-paying jobs are found in the sustainability sector.

Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 100,000 in October, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.

Victor M. Sweeney, an undertaker in a small town, says his obituary gets ‘”shorter and shorter” each year: “There are fewer and fewer things that truly matter.”

If billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban was a teenager again, and in need of cash, he’d start one specific side hustle in just three steps.

Job growth across the state has almost flatlined, and about 46% of new jobs last month came from the Bay Area. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with Business and Tech reporter Scott Budman to understand the trends.

Social media professional Jayde Powell has made $27,000 in 2024 posting on LinkedIn. She uses the cash to pay her bills and grow her full-time business.

Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 150,000 in September, according to the Dow Jones consensus forecast.

Retailers are ramping up hiring for the holidays, but fewer seasonal employees are expected to be taken on this year to help customers in stores and assemble online orders in warehouses.

Rachel Jimenez, the 36-year-old founder of the blog Money Hacking Mama, shares her best advice for starting a successful passive income stream.

Students who pursue an associate degree in science, technology, engineering or math are projected to earn the most overall, Payscale found. 

Indeed released a ranking of the top 100 publicly traded companies in the United States where worker wellbeing is highest.

The American labor market, red-hot for the past few years, has cooled. The job market is now in an unusual place: Jobholders are mostly secure, with layoffs low, historically speaking. Yet the pace of hiring has slowed, and landing a job has become harder.

With many tech companies explaining that their recent layoffs were made to reshape their workforce to focus on machine learning, some now worry the laid-off workers will be seen as “old tech” and not in line with Silicon Valley’s future.

Zoreen Kabani was looking for her next career move when she found out about Whatnot. She now sells more than $100K-worth of clothing per month.

Teachers can be overworked and underpaid. Luckily, for those keen to pick up a little extra income on the side, there are several hustles that could work.

Young Americans say they’re working second, seasonal jobs for fun, seeing it as a way to do something they love or earn extra spending money.

Initial claims for unemployment insurance were expected to total 240,000 for the week ended Aug. 3.

Chris Pyle started a virtual mechanic side hustle on JustAnswer in 2006. Now, he works on the platform full-time and is using the earnings to build a house.

Hiring may have been disrupted by Hurricane Beryl, which slammed the Texas economy last month.