The plants earn a fixed percentage of sales, a labor rate Thor won't reveal.
More importantly, players will be willing to continue setting the salary cap as a fixed percentage of revenue.
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That's because insurers take a fixed percentage cut of health premiums as profits.
During the term, one or more individuals get an annual payout of a fixed percentage of the trust's value (say, 8% ).
Instead of paying out only investment income to current heirs, a total return unitrust pays a fixed percentage of its total value annually.
For example, a mutual fund is permitted to invest routinely in companies which earn up to a fixed percentage of their income from interest.
Wright discovered that progress increases with experience: each percent increase in cumulative production in a given industry results in a fixed percentage improvement in production efficiency.
Whereas an old-style trust pays out only investment income (dividends and interest) to "income" beneficiaries, a TRU pays them a fixed percentage of its value annually--typically 3% to 5%.
Assuming that Amazon charges a fixed percentage of the sale price as its fee for every transaction, the service has the potential to generate millions, perhaps billions, in sales.
His student loan program will allow students for the first time ever to borrow money at low cost from the federal government and pay it back as a low fixed percentage of income for up to 20 years.
When John Valentine, a financial planner in San Ramon, Calif. who charges a fixed percentage of equity assets, analyzed his clients' returns and volatility over 18 months, those with 24 or fewer securities had a 5% higher risk-adjusted return compared with those owning 35 or more securities.
This is the main reason we continue to believe that investors should maintain a relatively fixed strategic percentage of their assets invested internationally.
Also, fear of inflation has caused a higher percentage of fixed investment to be directed into housing.
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When a credit card users make a purchase using his or her card, the merchant is charged a transaction fee by its bank that typically includes a fixed charge plus a percentage of the amount charged.
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The percentage bands were plotted at a set percentage around a fixed moving average.
Proxies in place, the team dove into the data and came up with surprising results: Between 2002 and 2007 (the years covered by the database), public firms increased their gross fixed assets (as a percentage of total assets) by 4.0 percent a year on average versus 9.7 percent at similar private firms.
Individual investors reduced their exposure to fixed income by 2.1 percentage points from March.
Our approach was simply to get a meaningful down-payment and gear fixed monthly payments to a sensible percentage of income.
Paul Herman, who heads HIP Investor, fixed-income investments have the lowest percentage of portfolio strategies that integrate impact and sustainability factors.
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The amount of money can be fixed (such as a dollar or percentage amount) or it can be the amount of income generated by the trust so long as it meets the thresholds under the Tax Code.
The only catch is that the percentage is promotional, and a fixed rate is yet to be decided.
Every portfolio is rebalanced back to its fixed target of stocks and bonds when the percentage is off by a meaningful amount.
If categorized as a hurricane, residential policyholders would be subject to deductibles based on a percentage of property value instead of fixed rates.
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Fixed-income allocations declined 0.6 percentage points to 20.2%.
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Redefine the budgeting process so that budgets are determined as a percentage of tax revenues, rather than fixed dollar amounts.
The council said using Xfor would cost the authority nothing, but the firm would take a percentage of what it received from issuing fixed penalty notices.
By comparison, the spread between 10-year Treasurys and a standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is just 1.93 percentage points, near historical averages, according to mortgage-data provider HSH Associates.
On balance, firms that derive less than 10% of its sales through Wal-Mart averaged 39.1% in gross margin, or the percentage of profit realized before items like fixed costs and interest expense are considered.
The rule of thumb is to use your age as a percentage of your savings to allocate to fixed income based funds (cash and bond funds) and the rest in stock funds (e.g. if you are 35, you might put 35% in bonds, 65% in stocks).
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