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PARADE On The Office, Jim Halpert livens up his mundane job by pulling pranks on co-worker Dwight Schrute. But what is it like to actually be a salesman in Scranton, Pa.? We found a few Americans who have the same real-life jobs as your favorite prime-time stars. - PARADE's What People Earn 2011 - ...

Bored at work? This summer, AOL Jobs will be publishing a career quiz every week to keep you entertained. This quiz was so popular with readers when it originally ran that AOL is republishing it. With so many people either unemployed or looking to change jobs in today's unpredictable economic ...

Recent research supports the theory that many of us feared was true: that unemployment has a negative impact on a worker's future salary, especially if the unemployment continues for a long period of time. The study analyzed employment mobility and "relative losses" to salary when an individual goes ...

You hear plenty of news about major CEOs who have outrageous, eight-figure salaries and then get multimillion-dollar bonuses on top of that. Some of these CEOs are the same people who oversee major layoffs, leaving former employees penniless on the streets. "Just how much money does one person need?" you ...

Have you ever wondered what it's really like to work for a particular company? Are you curious about what present and past employees say about the organization? If you want to research a company and go past the information written in the annual report, Glassdoor.com is a great resource. AOL Jobs recently ...

If your household budget is extra lean this year, you may be tempted to scrimp on tipping the service providers in your life. 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 ...

Rachel Farrell, Special to CareerBuilder Twenty-five dollars. It can buy you two movie tickets, one bottle of nice wine (or several of the cheap stuff), or 25 of your favorite items from the dollar menu at McDonalds. It might not seem like a lot -- but when you think about it in terms of your salary, you ...

Teenagers desperately want to fit in with their peers, but years later, as adults, they want to be different. They don't want to be just like everyone else. (For proof, tell a chef that her duck á l'orange is average and you'll be banished from her restaurant.) Being average can be an insult at times and ...

Most people don't earn six figures every year, but they sure would like to. By comparison, members of Congress, in both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, make at least $174,000 a year. And, other federal politicians and presidential Cabinet members earn even more. Are these politicos worthy of ...