Lemon.io, a software talent marketplace, analyzed 38 emerging tech job titles from LinkedIn's Jobs on the Rise 2026 list alongside four established roles, scoring them on pay, hiring growth, demand and newness. AI product manager topped the ranking of fast-developing, high-paying tech roles, with data drawn from Glassdoor, Adzuna salary estimates, Hacker News job postings and Google Trends search data. The report comes as a separate USA Today/SurveyMonkey survey found 24% of U.S. workers are actively job hunting, largely for better pay and career growth.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-30
Nature's 2026 job satisfaction survey, run with Thinks Insight & Strategy, gathered responses from 3,882 scientists across 133 countries and found widespread dissatisfaction with salaries. Respondents described pay that fails to keep pace with inflation or living costs, including a Nigerian academic who has had only one raise in over a decade and a US physicist earning less in real terms than her non-degree-holding father did two decades ago.
nature.com
· 2026-10-26
OpenAI now lists 27 open robotics positions on its careers page, more than double the 11 postings seen in May, spanning hardware, software, data and prototyping work. Base salaries range from $177,000 to $500,000 before equity and bonuses, with the top-paying role focused on building infrastructure to process robotics training data at scale.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-23
A new report highlights that executives at several S&P 500 companies, including Walmart, DoorDash, and Target, continue to receive large compensation packages even as many of their employees face financial hardship. The findings point to a widening gap between CEO pay and worker wages at firms often categorized as low-wage employers.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-27
A leaked spreadsheet obtained by Business Insider compiled self-reported salary data from about 600 Microsoft employees, revealing wide pay ranges by job level. Entry-level engineers reported base pay between $111,000 and $155,500, while senior levels reached up to $245,000 in base salary, and principal or director roles topped out around $280,000 with bonuses as high as $110,000.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-26
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