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Maybe it's the ability to influence a billion people or maybe it's the deluxe campus and free food, but Facebook employees have come out in full force and voted their company the best place to work this year.

Company review site Glassdoor annually compiles the 50 best places to work based on comments from employees in dozens of companies. This year, nearly half a million reviews were submitted that rated employers on career opportunities, salary and benefits, work and life balance, senior management, and culture and values. And, Facebook won out.

"The company's leadership truly believes … Read more

Google has been found to be the financial sweet spot for software engineers this year, according to a new report from jobs and careers site Glassdoor.

Based on salary reports shared over the past 12 months by software engineers at 15 various tech companies to compare average base salaries, Google was found to have the highest average base salary among the top dogs in technology.

Here's a glance at the top five:

Based on more than 5,000 salary reports, Glassdoor cited that the … Read more

If you think Research In Motion's co-CEOs are hurting for money after taking dramatic pay cuts, think again.

RIM chiefs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis said yesterday that they had asked to change their salary to $1 per year. The salary cut was a clear acknowledgement of the issues facing the company, and an act of contrition amid growing criticism about their ability to run the BlackBerry business.

It's a welcome gesture from two executives who have previously been criticized as in denial about RIM's prospects. But the act isn't as magnanimous as it initially appears, … Read more

Newly installed Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is joining a legion of Silicon Valley executives who have agreed to work for a single buck.

Whitman, who took over the helm of the computer maker last week when its board ousted previous CEO Leo Apotheker, will work for a base salary of $1 a year, according to a regulatory filing today. The former eBay CEO will also have the option to purchase 1.9 million shares of HP stock that will vest only when and if the company's stock price increases 120 percent over its current price, according to the Securities … Read more

Tapped by Larry Ellison to become a co-president of Oracle, Mark Hurd is poised to earn a base salary of $950,000 per year.

Hurd is also eligible for an executive bonus of $5 million next year if he meets whatever targets Oracle has set up for him, according to the offer letter (PDF) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Beyond that, he's in line for an overall bonus as high as $10 million.

Stock ownership is a big part of the package as well. Hurd has been rewarded with stock options that will let him buy up … Read more

OfficeTime is a flexible, low-key, and low-price time-tracking app, perfect for anyone who wants to track time across multiple tasks and projects.

OfficeTime uses a simple (if not particularly attractive) single-window interface, with a "play" button (to start or stop a timer) and a list of "sessions" associated with a given project. Each session can have a different billing rate and category (for example, admin or design), along with a record of time logged and any notes--all of which are easy to edit, in case you forget to start a timer or are working away from … Read more

Virtual TimeClock Basic is a slimmed-down, inexpensive version of Virtual TimeClock Pro, perfect for small businesses (with three employees max for Basic) that need to track hours and generate time card reports.

This app helps you set up a central time clock computer (Mac or Windows) for all employees to use. Workers can clock in and out, take breaks, log holiday and sick time, and update their status with preset or customizable messages. Employees gets their own password, and management can survey up-to-the minute times and totals, as well as historical data. Virtual TimeClock Basic also lets you quickly print … Read more

PayCal is a basic database program that allows users to quickly calculate payroll. The program is pretty bare-bones--you won't actually be able to print checks from it--but for a basic calculator, it works well.

PayCal's interface is fairly straightforward. A timesheet-style display for each employee allows users to enter hours worked, including a deduction for lunch. Users enter the pay rate and percentage withheld for taxes or other payroll deductions, and the program calculates the employee's gross and net pay for the pay period. Each sheet shows Monday through Sunday for one week, so users who don'… Read more

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will receive a base salary of $1 for fiscal 2010, according to a regulatory document filed Friday.

That's a decrease of $999,999 from last year. But Ellison won't exactly be starving. He is the world's fourth wealthiest person, according to Forbes.

And according to Oracle's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ellison's base pay of $1 million in fiscal 2009 only accounted for 1.2 percent of his total compensation anyway. Ninety-seven percent was in the form of stock.

Still, Ellison's new $1 base pay puts him on … Read more