Quotes About Compensation

If you're going to advance as a referee and make that $75,000 to $100,000 a year in the playoffs, you're going to give the league what they want. Because they are grading you.

I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well.

People love talking about how much an actor makes. A lot of headline space is dedicated to this.

If you're a top 10 guy you should pay a top 10 guy or even a top 5 guy what he deserves, whether it's a lightweight or a heavyweight.

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

In Hollywood, nobody knows how much everyone is making. It's all very hidden, and it's hard to change those things.

In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

If you're a highly touted free agent, you're going to get paid a lot of money no matter where you go.

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

a pension is a delayed payment for work already done. This is the most fundamental truth about pensions, and it is almost never said.

a pension comes with it, that pension is part of your pay, part of your conditions of employment.

pension is anything but a gift to an employee. It is earned. And it is set up to profit the employer as well as the employee.

but I wish my labors to be fairly rewarded.

Savez-vous que c'est à cause de cette recherche de ce que j'appellerais les compensations, cette rechercher d'un bonheur malgré tout, que naissent les manies et, souvent, les déséquilibres.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

I'd love it if every company could give raises to the average worker for doing good work.

Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.

During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.