" Again, you should say something like "My total compensation is in the high five figures, but every company has a different mix, so tell me how you see the compensation for this position being structured.

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Some journalists, such as Thomas L. Friedman, of the Times, earn more if one factors in speeches and books, but when, recently, Mossberg signed a four-year contract, two Journal sources told me, his annual compensation approached a million dollars.

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And let me say a word about compensation here.

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It is devastating to me that because he died in l997 he never received any compensation for his slave labour.

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Carl may not have wanted to pay me the bonus since he ran on a platform of containing executive compensation.

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The chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio told me that Lloyds is employing 6000 people full time on processing claims for PPI compensation, of which 1000 spend all their time dealing with false claims.

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So after I told Ann that we could negotiate a better compensation package for her food-water-shelter offer, I asked her to tell me the top five reasons she should have one foot out the door and pointed in the direction of her 16-year-old self.

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Indeed.com, the Google-like job listing aggregator, recently got in touch with me to report that the number of computer science job listings is more robust than ever, and the compensation is relatively good.

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