Editorial: Hats off to Mark Powell, the chief executive of the Warehouse Group, who says his $1.7 million salary package is a "ridiculous amount".

Kiwi consumers are less financially stressed than Australians despite rising interest rates, a survey has found.

Teenage New Zealand golf queen Lydia Ko has earned the equivalent of more than $5300 every day since turning professional late last year.

Economists love hamburgers - specifically fast-food burgers, because the sandwich makes a handy yardstick for international financial comparisons.

A group of technology executives are suing Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe for alleged collusion to suppress their wages.

New Zealanders can look forward to only slightly better wages and jobs growth over the next four years than they have had over the past four.

Can water cooler talk help fix the gender pay gap? President Barack Obama seems to think so.

Auckland's unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in six years. So what's behind the fall and will it continue?

The number of businesses who say it is getting harder to find the skilled workers they need is well above the long-term average, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research reports.

Migrant workers who were housed in central city offices with no bathroom or kitchen facilities are taking their former employer to court over unpaid wages.

Maori are living longer and their infant mortality rate will soon be the same as Pakeha - but they're still over-represented in poverty statistics.

New Zealand is still wasting its "demographic dividend" of young Maori and Pacific people reaching working age.

The Greens will push for legislation to lock MPs' and ministers' pay rises or even cuts to the same dollar amounts ordinary New Zealanders receive.

A school that must pay out on a hefty backpay bill to hostel staff says the Govt needs to ensure boarding remains an affordable option.

More than 100,000 low-paid workers will get a pay rise in little more than a month by 50c an hour to $14.25 from April 1.

What is going on with charter schools? Their justifying principle was fairly simple: they would receive funding for each pupil.

New Zealand will see declining unemployment and a rush for talent in 2014, according to the latest Global Salary Survey.

The pay packets offered to retail workers jumped almost 10 per cent last year, according to a major jobs website, in another sign of improving fortune for the sector.

The South Island has had bigger median income gains than the North over the past seven years, Census figures show.

New Zealand shows the widest pay discrepancy between men and women across company size and years experience, according to a new survey.

The Remuneration Authority has approved a "restrained" pay rise for MPs, giving each backbencher $3,500 more a year and raising PM John Key's salary by $9500.

Executives who are fired from their companies would be less likely to get excessive golden handshakes under a private member's bill being promoted by National list MP Paul Goldsmith.

Westpac's New Zealand boss earned more than $3 million in 2013 despite taking a pay cut.

BNZ boss Andrew Thorburn has made more than $400,000 from selling shares in the bank's parent company National Australia Bank (NAB).

The question is whether hard-working parents should be able to earn enough from their wages to give a couple of kids a minimally decent start in life, writes Brian Fallow.

Mayor Len Brown will propose a "living wage" of $18.40 for all Auckland Council staff at a council meeting today.

When the dust settles on his sex scandal, Auckland Mayor Len Brown has another delicate task ahead - setting a lower salary for the new boss of the Super City.

I'd like to be able to vote for a political party that would commit to winding back top pay in the public sector to $400,000, writes Tim Hazledine.