Quotes About Compensation

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation.

All I can do is make sure I show up to fight, and then they have no choice but to pay me.

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.

I don't really have the desire, as far as love of the game. It's more about the paycheck I can make.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

I think it's important to find out who all the writers were and make sure everyone gets a fair cut - but the music industry hasn't really got payment of people right at all, to be honest.

No one pays me to be nice.

There is no denying that TV pays really well.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

I've been charging what I deserve. I believe I am worth every penny of it, and if filmmakers think so, too, they will pay me.

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.

The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.