Jobs are scarce, and wages are stagnant for white-collar workers compared to last year.

New data shows that Gen Z are leading a shift from traditional post-college career paths to trade jobs, and apprenticeships.

Many blue-collar workers earn more than some white-collar workers. For example, Forbes identifies the top five blue-collar jobs and their respective mean annual earnings as: Nuclear power reactor ...

Gray Collar: These individuals work white collar jobs, and they regularly perform blue collar tasks as part of their jobs. Some engineers, for example, are gray color workers.

White-collar vs blue-collar jobs—many workers are considering giving up their desk jobs to switch to blue-collar work.

Unlike blue-collar workers, who got little sympathy, these laid off white-collar workers will have more clout. Expect them to create much more of a stink than those laid-off steelworkers managed ...

Some older professionals have taken blue-collar jobs in response to a white-collar hiring slowdown. Blue-collar roles are helping some people make ends meet while they continue their job searches.

White collar jobs are purportedly better paying and more respectable than blue collar jobs—here’s how that came to be.

Those gains have helped close the gap between blue- and white-collar workers. WSJ explains what’s driving the higher wages, and whether they will stick around. Illustration: Paige Money.