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H-P's new CEO Leo Apotheker will get nearly $15 million in bonuses and initial stock awards for taking over the technology giant. His annual salary will be $1.2 million.

The average pay of a city manager in Los Angeles County is about $210,000 -- far less than the nearly $800,000 paid to former Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo, according to a Times analysis on compensation data.

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Three administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles have agreed to resign, the City Council ...

More than 1 in 3 of San Francisco's nearly 27,000 city workers earned $100,000 or more last year - a number that has been growing steadily for the past decade. The number of city workers paid at least $100,000 in base...

It's a quirk in the federal rules that's most likely hurting thousands who have been searching for work for more than a year. In the first year of unemployment, the size of the benefit check is based on your old salary.

Bowing to increasing scrutiny of his compensation, Bank of America’s embattled chief executive, Kenneth D. Lewis, agreed not to take a salary or bonus for 2009.

You can't judge a job by its salary, and it seems the reverse is also true. You might never guess that some workers are taking home such sizable paychecks, so Forbes came up with a fun list of the most surprising six-figure jobs in the U.S.
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates was used to compile the list, and at least 10 percent of workers in each job must have earned more than $100,000 last year to make the cut. The 15 jobs Forbes deemed as surprisingly high-earners are below.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a 5% cut in 200,000 state workers' salaries.

Workers' earnings are stagnating or even declining as employers big and small resort to slashing hours and once-unthinkable wage cuts.

President Obama's nominee for commerce secretary will take a pay cut should he get the job. A new report shows Gary Locke's income ...