He lured sales managers with hefty pay increases and dangled signing bonuses to others.
For some players, parts of deferred signing bonuses and salaries are discounted to reflect current values.
Signing bonuses payable in prorated amounts and subject to annual forfeiture (recovery) by the teams.
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Signing bonuses are most heavily concentrated at the top of the first round and decline after that.
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These teams can take advantage of the hole in the salary cap by handing out big signing bonuses.
And they're offering signing bonuses and stock options to attract doctors from America.
Loophole: Signing bonuses can be amortized over the life of a player's contract.
By the end of the decade, owners had figured out a way to curtail the upward spiral of signing bonuses.
The suit also alleges unfair compensation, including signing bonuses, and discrimination in promotion to higher positions such as branch manager.
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While that will buy you a lot of caviar, it won't cover the signing bonuses needed to fill a locker room.
Team payroll data includes signing bonuses and is from Baseball Prospectus.
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Unlike most of us, athletes can receive millions in signing bonuses.
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There may be good news on the horizon, though: a few employers are once again offering signing bonuses after four years of eschewing the practice.
Included are revenues from real estate development around stadiums, rock concerts on nongame days and signing bonuses for players who go on to the big leagues.
The vastly improved Texas Rangers had two first round picks and both players were given appropriate signing bonuses due to where they were selected in the draft.
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The NHL's cap is more draconian than the one imposed by the National Football League, where teams can end-run the cap--at least for a while--with signing bonuses.
Bettman insists that the league needs to run under a more rigid salary cap, and make sure there are no signing bonuses or back-loaded contracts to player salaries.
So some of the agents have been structuring long-term deals for their clients that will pay the players signing bonuses next year even if no baseball is being played.
These were also generally worth more money: 70% reported an increase in base salaries from last year, while half anticipated students to get bigger signing bonuses on average than before.
In the case of Alex Rodriguez, issues have already developed with deferred compensation, legitimacy of performance, marketing agreements based on home run milestones, signing bonuses and compensation in the latter years of the contract.
While only 5% of employers said they'll include signing bonuses with their offers, Mr. Gardner views this as the leading edge of a trend and an indicator that wages will likely go up soon.
The two have since tried to patch things up and negotiations are again moving ahead, though Chrysler is reportedly balking at the signing bonuses and Tier II wage hikes approved at GM and Ford.
And though 1st round draft picks in the NFL may soon receive lower signing bonuses and guarantees due to rookie wage scales which most expect to be implemented, he still could have earned something as a 1st rounder.
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The AP's figures include salaries and prorated shares of signing bonuses and other guaranteed income for players on active rosters, disabled lists and the restricted lists, and rosters will change before teams must cut down to 25 active players.
There are, of course, thorny matters that still need clearing-up, including provisions about testing for human growth hormone, minimum team salaries and how the spread of guaranteed signing bonuses affects the salary cap, and long-term health of players players.
Drop-offs from last year include boxer Floyd Mayweather (has not fought since December 2007), NFL players Ben Roethlisberger and Dwight Freeney (both made the 2008 list after inking contracts with big signing bonuses) and Formula One driver Fernando Alonso (just missed the cut).
For the first time, the AP study presents payrolls for both active rosters and rosters following adjustments for cash transactions in trades, signing bonuses that are the responsibility of the club agreeing to the contract, option buyouts and termination pay for released players.
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