compensation and benefits

The management of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is unnecessarily coercing its musicians.

Harford County teachers will receive a roughly 5% salary increase next year, thanks to additional funding from the state's Kirwan Commission.

Water has been restored to Poe Homes but the health care needs of many low-income Baltimore residents are still not being met.

Baltimore Police officer Julie Pitocchelli, who has more than doubled her salary with overtime has recently been suspended,

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises said the findings demonstrate that the district is failing students.

The starting salary for Carroll County teachers will now be $48,000, up from $45,787. Superintendent Steve Lockard called that “very competitive.” He’s right.

Baltimore police commissioner Michael Harrison has ordered the arrest of a sergeant over an incident with a bystander, and the police union has fired back.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians are facing numerous challenges in the wake of the news that the summer season may be cancelled.

Robert Reich: The jobs problem today isn't just stagnant wages, it's also uncertain incomes.

Johns Hopkins is under scrutiny once again for taking the most financially-strapped patients to court over unpaid medical debt.

Check the status of bills that would establish a $15 minimum wage, let school boards decide whether to start classes after Labor Day, ban the use of plastic foam, and other measures.

Thanks to the growing list of people put on leave during Mayor Catherine Pugh's absence, Baltimore is paying $1,600 a day for people not to work.

Gov. Larry Hogan has vetoed three bills passed by state lawmakers that would have increased the state's hourly minimum wage to $15, allowed local school districts to decide when the academic year starts, and moved alcohol and tobacco enforcement to a new commission.

Under Armour CEO and chairman Kevin Plank earned $6.6 million last year, with the value of that compensation totaling about half that amount, Under Armour reported.

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: There is an object lesson in the college admissions scandal beyond disgust.

Maryland’s lawmakers have agreed on the details of how to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour, allowing the measure to move to Gov. Larry Hogan, who opposes such a significant increase.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is proposing raising the state’s minimum wage to $12.10 an hour, instead of a $15 hourly wage backed by state Democratic leaders.

The Maryland House of Delegates has approved a bill that would gradually increase the state's minimum wage from $10.10 per hour to $15 an hour in 2025. The debate now moves to the Senate, which has not yet taken action.

Bryce Harper's 13-year, $330 million give him the richest guaranteed contract in baseball history, but Manny Machado got the higher average salary. So who won?

Sen. Bob Cassilly says the push to increase the minimum wage in Maryland to $15 an hour raises issues that are more complex than suggested by the advocates’ simple plea that everyone is entitled to an annual living wage of $31,000 from the moment they start their first job.

If the Ravens want to build on last season’s playoff run, they can look to the Patriots for blueprints.

Baltimore’s spending board has approved a 5-year contract for the incoming police commissioner. The deal gives him valuable perks and a far higher salary than his predecessors, but at also makes him easier to fire. Michael Harrison would make $275,000 a year. He starts Monday.

In this time of stark divisions, more than three-quarters of both Republicans and Democrats support the concept of a guaranteed retirement account  (GRA) — an account into which employers and employees make modest, regular deposits that grow into a reliable nest egg.

The Baltimore Police Department is not only failing to fill vacant patrol positions in the face of steady street violence, which officials have called a priority, but suffered a net loss of 36 sworn officers in 2018 — hiring 184 officers but losing 220, data obtained by The Baltimore Sun show.

A battle is shaping up in Annapolis over whether — and by how much — to increase Maryland’s minimum wage. Advocates want a bill passed that will raise it to $15 for everyone. Opponents, including groups representing small businesses, hope to block an increase — or at least soften its impact.

Minimum wage is meant for people entering the work force, not to raise entire families.

As Maryland lawmakers got back to work, Gov. Larry Hogan expressed doubts about the wisdom of increasing the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. Hogan questioned whether raising it would put Maryland at a disadvantage for attracting businesses. He noted that Virginia’s minimum wage is $7.25.

With spouses and children by their sides, Maryland's 188 lawmakers were sworn into office. While lawmakers are expected to hash out tricky issues over the next 90 days, the first day was largely reserved for celebration and optimism.

Hundreds more Marylanders are seeking unemployment insurance benefits related to the federal government shutdown. As the funding impasse reached its 12th day Wednesday, the state said it's received 462 such benefit applications from Dec. 22 through Dec. 31.

De Sousa was charged in May with three misdemeanor counts of failing to file federal tax returns. He resigned one week later.

Robert Reich: GM's shareholder-first focus reveals problems in Donald Trump's America-first economic policy.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said she expects the city's new police commissioner could be paid about $260,000 — a 25 percent increase compared with what previous commissioners have made. The salary would make Joel Fitzgerald among the best paid city employees.

All things being equal, Harford County Public Schools would need almost $35 million in additional funding to operate during the next school year in 2019-20 — an increase almost certain not to happen — Superintendent Dr. Sean Bulson said.

Now that Democrats are poised to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January, taxpayers can expect a major push to achieve the "progressive"

Amazon’s move to boost its U.S. workers’ minimum wage to $15 per hour next month could put pressure on large retailers and other employers to follow with similar increases, especially amid a tight labor market where job openings often outnumber applicants.

Once again, most of Baltimore’s highest paid employees are police officers. Surging police overtime expenses in fiscal year 2018 meant that 40 of the 50 highest-paid city employees work for the police department — including seven of the top 10.

Robert Reich: We're careening toward the same sort of crash we had in 2008, and possibly as bad as 1929.

The average wage earned in America has been stagnating for four decades, according to the Pew Research Center. It's a shocking finding. Thankfully, there are

Gov. Larry Hogan has sent a letter to Maryland corrections officers defending is record on running the state prison system.

A new survey shows a wide pay gap between the state's male and female physicians.

The kind of single-payer health care plan Ben Jealous is proposing would be expensive, but so is the status quo.

The head of the University System of Maryland received nearly $800,000 in compensation for fiscal year 2017. That included a controversial, one-time $75,000 bonus.

County Commissioner, District 5 candidate: Frank Robert, Republican

The salary marks a pay cut from what he earned at LSU.

A Baltimore jury convicted a city police lieutenant who prosecutors said was at home on the Eastern Shore when he was taking pay for overseeing the downtown casino district.

The Baltimore Teachers Union has voted to ratify new salary scales, endorsing a 2.5 percent pay raise for city teachers over the next two years.

Some nurses at the Johns Hopkins Hospital are attempting to form a union, saying that they are overworked, union officials said Monday.

The Baltimore Sun's database on salaries of Maryland public employees shows that University of Maryland mens basketball coach Mark Turgeon is highest paid.

The eight-week Sisters in the Brotherhood Pre-Apprenticeship Program prepares women for careers in carpentry, drawing them to a male-dominated industry.