Italy Puts All Salaries Online

Typical home pulls in about $84,000

(NEWSER) - Our nation's capital city boasts the highest average income in the country, reports Bloomberg . New census statistics show that a household in the DC metro area typically earns $84,523, compared to the national median of $50,045. The booming salaries are explained by a dense concentration of lobbyists, lawyers, and federal employees who have prospered despite the recession. Federal workers, in fact, earn an average $126,000 in total compensation. More»

'Wall Street Journal' offers a quick calculator

(NEWSER) - Just how strongly do you identify with the "We Are the 99%" slogan? It's the Wall Street Journal to the rescue, with a nifty little tool that allows you to plug in your salary and see what percentile you're in. (It's based just on salary, not total wealth.) Use it here . Spoiler alert: If your salary is somewhere south of $506,000, you are indeed a 99-percenter and free to post something on Tumblr here . You lucky 1-percenters can go here . And you OWS skeptics can go here . More»

Study finds less agreeable workers earn more

(NEWSER) - Kindness doesn't pay—at least not between the hours of 9 and 5, a new study shows. The aptly-named "Do Nice Guys—and Gals—Really Finish Last?" study found that "agreeable" workers earn less than those who aren't as agreeable, with an especially wide gap for male employees. Men with below average agreeableness earned around 18% more per year than their more agreeable colleagues; less agreeable women earned about 5% more. More»

New photos allow immersive experience of Italian ruins

(NEWSER) - Google's roaming photographers have found their way to ruins of Pompeii, and you can now tour the Italian archaeological treasure from the comfort of your own home using Street View. The Google Maps app, which creates an immersive 3-D environment from digital photographs, had previously focused on more traditional—and modern—urban environments. It’s “not as good as actually visiting Pompeii in person,” Stan Schroeder writes for Mashable , “but it’s definitely the next best thing .” More»

(NEWSER) - Another Twitter first: An Oklahoma City man has been arrested by the FBI after tweeting threats of a bloody rampage against the government at last week’s "tea party” in that city, Wired reports. “START THE KILLING NOW! I am willing to be the FIRST DEATH!” wrote Daniel Knight Hayden. Agents arrested Hayden the day of the event and charged him with making interstate threats. He's in a halfway house pending trial. More»