They command such high salaries, in part, to offset their high cost of living.
All this emphasis on earning high salaries with low risk means that entrepreneurial aspirations are discouraged.
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Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said increasing transparency was the key to addressing high salaries.
In addition to high salaries, these people are provided generous allowances for housing and their children's private schooling.
Why would they want to alienate themselves from graduates who'll be earning high salaries in years to come?
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Australia is experiencing a mining boom, with thousands of workers attracted by high salaries to remote Outback mines.
When most dons are ill-paid, giving high salaries to a few newcomers will damage morale without raising standards.
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Even ambitious women don't measure success in high salaries and fancy job titles.
The air chief marshal said he did not begrudge the high salaries being offered to his pilots by private airlines.
Of course many of America's best universities are able to pay high salaries, largely because they are well-endowed private institutions.
In addition, Washington has no state income tax, so its residents get to keep more of those high salaries, he says.
The Asian generation that came of age with the Internet was spoiled by quick property fortunes, high salaries and stockmarket riches.
This is also a team that makes due without the high salaries and perks that some other professional sports teams enjoy.
Politicians and commercial rivals say it fails to discipline the BBC, at least before complaints over such things as presenters' high salaries become overwhelming.
High salaries as a marketing strategy worked in the U.S., and it was hoped that this would be a good marketing ploy in China as well.
And, as expected, the New York City metropolitan area makes our list as well, coming in 13th overall, saved from the top by relatively high salaries.
Today, though, these groups are powerful enough to boost the cost of any government initiative--because often they require high salaries, costly work rules and, most important, pension benefits.
But the average age of Ford s workforce is about five years younger than GM s, which means Ford will have to shell out more money to convince workers to give up their high salaries and gold-plated benefits.
People don't begrudge high salaries for important officials (in Singapore they pay cabinet-level ministers more than a million dollars a year, to attract the best people) as long as those salaries are transparent and publicly available.
Employees of these charities that are on paid positions should be paid decent salaries but not excessive high salaries and a small % for promotions so that the public can trust where there money is going.
So, in a grand sense its certainly true that if the market dynamics were such that it was profitable to hire millions of manufacturing employees at very high salaries then that would rocket the US towards recovery.
Although it directly represents only 5% of total employment, it accounted for over half of the new jobs created in 1995-97, once the impact of related industries and those that benefit from its record profits and high salaries are taken into account.
In order for the NHS to work stop them competing with the corporate institutions and put doctors on a commission basis, where they are able to get very high salaries proportional to the number of times a patient has to return to get a cure ie pay them for results and not numbers.
At one time, people were upset about giving executives high fixed salaries not tethered to firm performance.
Charitable commitment can be pulled down by a number of factors, including high management salaries and large fundraising costs.
Many clubs in Europe also have a significant amount of debt due to high player salaries and global outreach campaigns.
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America's high executive salaries push it into second place.
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