High compensation helps offset the risks and seasonal fluctuations that come with the work.
Main problem: ridiculously high compensation for executives who work on the bowl committees.
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Yet one doubts that a properly functioning market would ever provide such high compensation to the chief executive of a company that loses millions annually.
They might say that as taxpayers they have unwittingly supported Wall Street, but this is not because of high compensation, but because of Washington's interference with the bank bailouts.
The growing costs and high compensation claims have raised fears about the very future of Tepco, which provides electricity to some of the most densely populated and economically important regions of Japan.
We've already seen in the last year several examples of high profile compensation packages being restructured due to this process.
With government employee pensions skyrocketing, high unemployment compensation debt and an increasing amount of taxpaying businesses fleeing the state, California is learning a hard lesson in fiscal responsibility.
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This approach has produced extremely high levels of compensation that are highly dysfunctional.
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There are six CEOs of other European corporations on the board of Allianz, all of whom would have a vested interest in keeping compensation high.
The arguments justifying high levels of executive compensation usually cite pay for performance and scarcity of talent.
Unfortunately, there is little evidence that most board members are concerned about the high level of executive compensation.
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" 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.
That was when the economy was booming and compensation levels were high, he adds.
The families of two fire officers killed in a blast at a fireworks factory have taken their fight for compensation to the High Court.
Compensation has become so high that it significantly affects the profitability of even relatively large corporations.
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Speaking after the compensation hearing at Birmingham High Court, his widow, Penny Belcuore, said it had been "a long slog".
The New Zealand attorney general had asked the appeals court to exclude the GCSB from Mr Dotcom's lawsuit seeking compensation, after the high court ruled last year that the agency could be held liable for illegally spying, but the court rejected the bid.
Both careers involve intense stress, a weak or unsteady hiring and employment outlook, and compensation that is not as high as people may think.
Staff at the National Forest have said they will fight for compensation if a proposed HS2 high speed rail route through its woodland gets the go ahead.
In 2011, the Delhi High Court ordered the authorities to pay compensation to the wife of biscuit tycoon Rajan Pillai who died in Tihar in July 1995 for lack of proper medical care.
For politicians who care about providing high-quality government services, public employee compensation reforms have become the best available option.
Bob Diamond, the former head of Barclays bank, was "reluctant" to agree that pay at the bank was too high, according to its former head of compensation.
In 2008 the council settled with Mr Bullock, now 38, agreeing to accept 72.5% of his full claim value, but the final compensation amount was approved by the High Court earlier this week following years of negotiations between both parties.
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In other words, delayed compensation attenuated the positive effects of the high-powered incentives.
Data from the report suggest low rise in pay among directors in the Top 200 indicates to us a reluctance to increase compensation at these companies while unemployment remains high.
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Nor will it fix the problem of women undervaluing themselves, dismissing their own achievements, down-playing their power, failing to take credit for their successes, and avoiding the still frightening prospect of negotiating compensation, bonuses and other perquisites for high achievers in the workplace.
Most taxpayers receive compensation as ordinary wages subject to rates as high as 35%.
When wage taxes are high and capital taxes are low, firms simply shift compensation from salaries to stock options and dividends, cutting revenue without boosting growth.
Wall Street recently handed out its largest total compensation in history, yet unemployment is still sky high.
Sheri Garman lived just long enough to get a bill introduced that would make Idahoans eligible under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and to see her daughter graduate from high school.
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