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Most employers say they're willing to negotiate, and 85% of employees who try for a higher salary, better benefits, or other changes get at least some of what they asked for. Yet only 45% of U.S. workers start that conversation when they receive an offer. That statistic that tracks with my own experience.?I've hired about 2,000 people at companies including Google, DoorDash, and Carta. I'd estimate that about half of the candidates I've extended an offer to didn't negotiate at all. So why don't more people give it a shot?

From Social Security to Medicare and beyond, there are a lot of choices to navigate when preparing for retirement. Here's how to get started.

Generative AI is seeping into the workplace, whether companies approve of its use or not, and cybersecurity caution is needed with these breakthrough chatbots.

You can save $1 million for retirement while making $80,000 per year. Here's a breakdown of how much of your salary you'll need to invest.

Seafarers describe the highs and lows of spending months on the ocean.

Being a "master of cash flow" is an important foundational step households should consider addressing before they invest.

"Pig butchering" operations run out of Asia but target victims globally, with scammers promising love and wealth to get their victims to invest their fortunes.

Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women have to work 15 months to earn what a man makes in one year, the National Women's Law Center found.

The bitcoin rally is generating a false sense of security among investors, according to the strategist behind the so-called granddaddy of gold exchange-traded funds. State Street Global Advisors' George Milling-Stanley warns cryptocurrency plays don't offer the stability of gold. "Bitcoin, pure and simple, it's a return play, and I think that people have been jumping onto the return plays," the firm's chief gold strategist said on CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.

For many Americans, housing costs aren't just another expense — they shape how the rest of the budget comes together. Yet figuring out how much you can reasonably afford to spend on housing has become increasingly complicated in recent years, as shelter costs continue to rise. If you earn $80,000 a year — the median household income —? a decades-old rule of thumb suggests spending no more than 30% of your income on housing, or about $2,000 per month. But for many earners, that's far from realistic, especially in large cities where housing prices have surged the most.