He has already extracted big paydays from companies like Microsoft, Research in Motion and Ebay.
The best golfers and tennis players try to leverage prize money into even bigger paydays from corporate sponsorships.
After surveying company desires, Google (GOOG) has reportedly decided to sweeten the paydays of its employees.
The actors who score well on this list tend to have small paydays and star in highly profitable movies.
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The new law takes away big bonuses and paydays from failed CEOs, while giving shareholders a say on executive salaries.
After all, there's no way the baseball cartel would allow more teams to threaten the paydays of fat-cat owners and players.
Those complaints were undermined by the fact they got huge paydays by exercising the rest of their options that had vested already.
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In a sport defined by grace and artistry, it's ironic that figure skating won its popularity--and its big paydays--in 1994, thanks to an act of brutality.
It has the potential to be the second biggest non-heavyweight fight ever on pay-per-view and the biggest score yet for Mayweather in a career of eight-figure paydays.
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But payroll service firms objected that imposing such a cap would make it impossible for them to accommodate the short-term tax cut in time for January paydays.
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At some companies, though, there are hints of smaller paydays.
"They see these pre-Olympics meets as easy paydays, " he said.
Startups who snare giant paydays live on for decades in college classrooms, cramped Silicon Valley offices and the psyches of prodigy engineers toiling into the night for little or no salary.
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Most companies will not say whether they are insured, because doing so could invalidate their policies and put their employees at greater risk of being grabbed by kidnappers hoping for multimillion dollar paydays.
Golf's FedEx Cup is going to be a huge success for the PGA. The inaugural edition in 2007 was slammed for a convoluted points system, players missing events and paydays that players couldn't touch for 20 years.
Recent talk of a Qatar-backed "Dream Football League, " which would have offered huge paydays to the world's top clubs to appear in a biannual tournament, briefly shocked the soccer world until the project proved to be a hoax.
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Hollywood will always spend more for a sequel to a successful movie--stars of the original have more leverage to demand bigger paydays, and studios heads feel, with some justification, that a sequel is a safer box office bet.
Mysterious and secretive, they dangle the possibility of enormous paydays and a work environment populated by intense math geniuses who dwell in giant Connecticut mansions or Upper East Side townhouses studded with artworks by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
While there are certainly highly-skilled and in-demand professionals who are able to parlay their hired-gun status into big paydays or renaissance workers who are mashing up day jobs and dream jobs, those who benefit financially from the gig economy are in the minority.
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Since December will include an extra Sunday and Monday this year, employees whose paydays fall on either of those days will get an extra check in 2012, even though their pay rate remains the same, explains, Michael O'Toole, a senior director at the American Payroll Association in San Antonio.
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