Some clerks who have received automatic annual pay rises make more than the judges they serve.
In their last negotiations, Verizon's unions won annual pay increases of 4%, 3%, and 5%.
In particular, the case for a general annual pay rise, tied to consumer-price inflation, is vanishing.
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The deal also includes a one-off performance-related bonus of up to 2.4% of annual pay.
Moreover, people like an annual pay rise even if it provides no real gain.
Once prices are flat or falling, the annual pay rise may become a thing of the past.
Many civil service contracts require annual pay increases for staff, in line with their seniority and length of service.
Regarding the median annual pay among the Top 125 golfers, the 5-year revenue growth between 2005 and 2010 was only 8%.
For the past few months a government panel has debated whether to help the industry out by allowing them to lower their annual pay-out rates.
In other words, NVR paid its CEO an annual pay package that is worth more than twice the total increase in earnings from the previous year.
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The same insurers have also argued that they make gains from lower-than-expected mortality and expense rates, which, they say, more than cover losses from annual pay-outs.
About 40% of shareholders did not support the miner's annual pay report, while many opposed the re-election of two directors, including Glencore boss and Xstrata board member Ivan Glasenberg18432084.
Under the changes, which are expected to come fully into effect in 2014, teachers will no longer receive automatic annual pay rises, but will get annual appraisals with schools deciding on salary levels.
Those who have had their awards withdrawn do not receive annual pay rises so the NHS can start to claw back some of the money, but as pay is currently frozen, that is having little impact.
Just as pay bills are becoming a bigger share of total costs, employers are having to deal with the waning of the inflation that prompted the ritual of the annual pay round in the first place.
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The resulting contract, signed in fall 2009, garnered national attention for its brevity, just 10 pages, and its establishment of a merit-based pay scale instead of guaranteed annual pay raises, prompting charter school administrators to issue a press release.
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This is why discussions have been about making a much stronger link between providing high quality patient care and annual pay progression - with a much stronger emphasis on behaviours referenced in the NHS Constitution around compassion, dignity and respect.
Black New Yorkers cheer all of this, perhaps most notably in 2005 when three-quarters of blacks supported a transit union that called an illegal walkout while demanding a 6% annual pay raise on top of its already bulging pay envelope.
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We recently had our annual pay increase exercise at my university and it did a number of things, including hand delivering pay worksheets and emailing password-protected Excel spreadsheets to ensure that the amount of the raises given was a well-kept secret.
They want more done to stop new cases arising in the future, as well as the introduction of annual equal pay audits for councils.
That's per a new report by the job information website Glassdoor.com, which ranked technology employers based on the average annual base pay they give their marketing managers.
Mr Cable has been consulting on how the current annual votes on pay, which have only advisory status, could be replaced by votes with mandatory force.
In addition to New York City taxes, Fieldston residents pay annual fees of a few thousand dollars depending on their house lot size to the Fieldston Property Owners Association.
The recession obviously hit housing prices, but there is a far more meaningful reason: Younger Americans no longer dream of living in enclosed communities where they have to pay annual dues.
As a result, the Lakers can resign Howard for 5-years with a maximum annual increase in pay of 7.5%, while another team would be limited to offering a 4-year deal with maximum annual raises of only 4.5%.
There are sufficient Trust Fund bonds to make up the annual deficits and pay all benefits in full and on time for the next 25 years, and there are sufficient federal revenues to redeem the bonds without borrowing another dime from the public.
He acknowledged a 1% cap was "tough" but said many public sector workers would be helped by "pay progression" - annual increases in salary grades - even when pay was frozen.
In some cases, Internet radio providers pay half of their annual revenues in performance royalties, while other music providers pay less than 10 percent.
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