Quotes About Compensation

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

Honest work deserves honest pay.

Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a real royalty from that.

The royalties from downloading are bad enough but the royalties from streaming are non-existent.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that has 100 million streams, on certain services you only get paid on 75% of those streams. How's an artist going to live like that?

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?

The College Athlete Right to Organize Act is the first step in bringing college sports into the 21st century by ensuring college athletes have the right to collectively bargain across teams and conferences, and that they are able to advocate for rights, protections, and compensation commensurate with the value they undeniably provide.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead.

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

I tell the people that hire us, if we don't get a standing ovation when we're finished with our performance, it's free - and we've always been paid.

The truth is, the WWE has changed incredibly since my wrestling days. The work schedule is not as demanding overall, and the compensation is much better.

There's no such thing as overpaid.