"For a lot of jobs where workers receive tips, you are their boss, not the employer they work for," says Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at online salary database PayScale.com. Lee directs an annual study of how tips are growing and shrinking for 92 jobs, and what percentage of wages comes from tips in each of those occupations.

Online salary database PayScale.com put together a list of common boss-subordinate relationships and calculated the earnings differences. Chances are your boss is doing well financially.

How has she managed to sort through all of these cuties? It's hard to imagine the task, but she's narrowed the field to two lucky guys.

PayScale recently released its Q1 results for The PayScale Index, a quarterly analysis of wage increases and decreases by industry, metro area and company size. The PayScale Index reviews earnings data all the way back to 2006 and tracks the rate change in total compensation (salary, bonuses, tips, etc.) of full-time, private workers.

Online salary database and career website PayScale.com has gathered up a list of major employers near military bases to help those in transition get back to work more quickly. PayScale picked from a list of major military bases produced by the U.S. Department of Defense and matched a handful of those locations employers, common jobs and median pay ranges for those jobs.

Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at online salary database PayScale.com, recommends that military folks in search of good pay take advantage of three special areas of knowledge they likely have: security, machinery operation and, the less well-known but highly lucrative, logistics.

Online salary database PayScale.com has come up with a list of the most common employers of former military service men and women. Not surprisingly, companies who contract with the military or federal government prefer hiring workers who are familiar with those organizations. "A key skill that military people have going for them is that they understand how to work with the government and the military," says Al Lee, PayScale's director of quantitative analysis.

For the fourth year in a row, PayScale has pitted the schools in the tournament against each other according to the median annual salary for a graduate who is working full time; namely, graduates who are now 5-15 years into their careers, approximately 30 to 40 years old.

Online salary and career site PayScale.com takes you to the "concrete carpet" at the Academy Awards to find out about the workers who are making the whole event come together. We've put together a list of essential players, their typical level of education, their median pay and their pay in the 90th percentile. Why include the 90th percentile earners? We figured that only the best get invited to work the Oscars -- so they're likely paid more than the folks with average skills.

Online salary and career site PayScale.com has come up with a list of jobs that require little, if any, previous experience and do not require a bachelor's degree, special skills or vocational training. Your chances at getting these jobs may be helped with more skills, experience and education, but the right employer could hire you without them. Most of these jobs require on-the-job training, but at least you're getting paid while you learn.

You need a flexible job. Flexibility is getting more and more essential as busy people, parents in particular, need room in their schedule to make their lives run smoothly.

Online salary and career database PayScale.com recently surveyed working Americans to find out how they rated their job's level of flexibility. People in the survey described their job as highly flexible by checking the box for, "On any day, I can change my schedule and time off."

To figure out which jobs are the "popular" ones, online salary and career database PayScale.com recently conducted a survey and asked workers about their job satisfaction. Below is a list of the 10 jobs that made the top of the list and what they pay each year, according to PayScale.com.

Online salary database PayScale.com has done its research and discovered jobs where you can get started in a career and actually earn a good wage from the very beginning.

Online salary database PayScale.com recently conducted a survey and asked workers about their stress levels at work. Those jobs considered "low stress" were rated as "a little stressful," "not stressful" or "relaxing" by at least 40 percent of the respondents in the survey.

But, if you do, remember that skipping a worker's gratuity, in many cases, would be like your boss saying to you, "Hey, guess what? We're going to cut your pay by 20 percent this month."

Online salary database PayScale.com has collected salary data dating back to 2006 to create a new economic indicator, The PayScale Index. The PayScale Index, which will be refreshed quarterly, tracks the changes in average wages of private industry, full-time employees in 16 different industries. It's clear that the recession hit every sector. But, which industries suffered the greatest wage losses and which are recovering fastest?

Online salary database PayScale.com has analyzed the huge body of salary data on private-industry, full-time employees that it has collected since 2006 and developed a new measure of compensation trends called The PayScale Index. PayScale reveals just how bad the recession was for private workers' earnings and why we now may be able to breathe a sigh of relief as some positive signs emerge. Maybe.