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Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries.
Salaries should be set based on production and contributions, not positions.
Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.
Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead.
At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.
Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.
I have commissioners who had very good jobs, making good salaries, and gave up something to work for the state.
If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.
Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public.
Is wellbeing only economic growth? Only salaries? Or is wellbeing also being able to breathe clean air and drink clean water?
Yes, I introduced the congressional pay cut bill, cutting our salaries by five percent. And I think we have to lead by example.
If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
I do believe that as the country becomes more attractive in the manufacturing sector, salaries can improve, and opportunities can expand.
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.
What we're concerned about is massive immigration of unskilled workers, mostly from the Maghreb and Africa, which pulls down salaries in France.
The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
As tastes shift around the globe and there are more roles for women, there are more women who can participate. Salaries will go up and be commensurate.
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
Don't get me started on BBC salaries. We were never the big league. Situation comedy has always been the poor relation in the television entertainment business.
Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.
You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.
Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept the need for regulation on banks and salaries and so on.
The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an undersupply of people committed to the public sector.
A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
If trustees feel it is in their charity's interest to pay high salaries to attract talented people, then they should have the courage of their conviction and explain their decisions publicly.
Halcyon people have put aside and left their homes, their million dollar salaries, full professorships at major universities, and fully seed-funded startup companies to be part of this effort.
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.