Not surprisingly, most of the top salary-getters have diplomas in those disciplines.
To be sure, the Obama record on equality in the workplace is an improvement over the previous administration as during the comparable point of the Bush administration there were just 3 women who had achieved the top salary.
The 35% top rate on salary and other ordinary income is well below its historic average.
On top of their salary, the latest increase will raise MEPs' monthly 4, 299-euro office allowance to 5, 799 euros.
Even so, 38% of CFOs say they are more willing to negotiate with top candidates on salary in 2012, according to a Robert Half study.
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They are simply granted per diems that automatically get piled on top of their final salary.
Many companies have found that diminishing returns on stock market investments have made it too expensive to top up their final salary pension funds.
As union members, collectors' salaries are dependent on length of service and the top step of their salary range is reached in their sixth year.
And he said the new performance-related pay system for teachers at the top of the basic salary scale would make "a substantial difference" in the longer term.
Bonds' FTPN was more than 120 points ahead of Cleveland's Jim Thome at 646. (Thome signed with Philadelphia in the off-season but is still only 22nd among starting position players in the salary rankings.) Rounding out the top five by FTPN are Boston's Manny Ramirez (salary rank: 3) and Pittsburgh's underrated Brian Giles (salary rank: 37).
The Cabinet Office said the salary bill for top-earners had been cut by 18% in the past year.
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Higher-paid officials will lose 15-20% of their monthly salary, on top of an across-the-board 20% reduction last year.
Higher level officers would not pay taxes on the portion of their salary equal to the top senior enlisted members' amount.
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In the Financial Times 2006 MBA rankings, graduates of the top-placed Wharton school reported salary increases of 139 per cent in the period from starting their course until three years after graduation.
Certainly, top lawyers can earn a much higher salary than engineers.
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Of 754 sports fans in the survey released Tuesday, only 21 percent said they'd like to see top college athletes paid a stipend or salary beyond their scholarship, while 72 percent believed a scholarship alone was enough compensation.
Glassdoor compiled a list of the top-paying big banks, based on salary reports received within the past two years for each company.
If the Chicago Meat Authority needs a new specialist butcher, rather than posting to a number of different job boards and then sorting through the e-mails themselves, they can post through SmartRecruiters, which will instantly post the job on the best boards for that type of position, sort the responses and bring back the top choices based on experience, geography and salary expectations.
In addition to paying a salary, most large companies reward their top executives through short term and long term incentive plans.
The current top rate on long-term capital gains is 15%, and the top rate on ordinary income such as interest and salary is 35%.
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Maybe that's because the '80s represented something of a sports sweet spot, coming after free agency and racial integration had become the norm, but before further expansion, big payroll disparities and salary cap rules began making it tough for top teams to assemble and stay together.
As I pointed out here, because of the historically low 15% rate on long term capital gains (compared to a top tax rate of 35% for ordinary income, like salary) the 400 highest income Americans now pay a lower effective federal income tax rate than the merely well paid.
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These include new "top-up" payments and two years of guaranteed rises in basic salary from 2011.
The carry allows general partners in investment deals to receive compensation in the form of tax-advantaged capital gains, which are taxed at 15 percent, rather than as salary, which would be taxed as ordinary income with a top rate of 35 percent.
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Nearly three quarters (73%) said that a cash bonus would be among their top choices for employer-gifted holiday perks this year, followed by a salary raise (60%).
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Here are the top three countries in those categories, along with the U.S. Salary is in euros (based on July 1, 2012 exchange rate) and is for middle management only.
Each of Benckiser's top 150 executives now receives a cash bonus typically equal to 40% of base salary if the executive meets preset growth goals in areas such as net revenue and operating income.
So studies of wage, salary and labor income count this large source of income concentrated among the top income earners in the later years, but not in the earlier years, showing a large increase in inequality and in the incomes of the top earners over the years.
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