Quotes About Salary

When Atletico wanted to sell me, I was told that I earned too much money and they wanted me off the wage bill. I liked that honesty.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

I'm more concerned about maximum wages, not minimum wages.

The biggest thing I learned is directors don't make a lot of money on a movie.

Why don't I earn very much? I don't know; you'd have to ask my agent. Maybe I'm just not very bright!

Broadway doesn't pay that much.

I can't suddenly say that because I am acting opposite Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, and Varun Dhawan... I should get the same salary as theirs. Because I won't get the audience to the theatres as much as they will.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

Would appreciate your convoying (sic) the following to Joe DiMaggio in the event the Yankees don't pay more than $37,000: 'We cordially invite you to try out with the 143rd Infantry, 36th Division. The pay is only $21 a month but that's better than nothing. Please advise. P.S. Why settle for yesterday's salary?

The first thing to say about money is that if the salary range is stated in the job ad, and is not enough for you, then don't apply. You should not plan to get an offer and then start negotiating. As the hiring firm sees it, those negotiations were concluded when you applied for the job. You'd be livid if they dropped the salary offer after putting it into the ad, so why do the same thing to them in reverse?

Even the word salary came from the Latin salarium, which meant the amount a soldier was paid to buy salt.

Sam Parks was simply a paid agent for his union, receiving the same salary as an ordinary workman in his trade. In reality, Baker tracked him "riding about in his cab, wearing diamonds, appearing on the street with his blooded bulldog, supporting his fast horses, 'treating' his friends.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I'd love to do a perlod piece. Maybe 'Caesar and Cleopatra.' I could do both roles- at one-and-a-half salaries.

Baseball, in my opinion, would be a lot better if you could just make the same salary as everybody else in the world, and you don't deal with any of the other stuff. But that's not how it is. The main thing is I want to pitch against the best players in the world, and you can't do that playing in a pickup baseball league in your town.

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

In broadcasting, especially 'cause people are more public, it's hard to be like 'so what are you making?' Finding that information is huge when you're negotiating a contract. You wanna make sure that you're in the same ballpark.