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Quotes About Salary

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.
~ J.B.
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
~ Arundhati Roy
It's almost never the kind of person you are but the kind of job you do decides how much you get paid.
~ Saahil Prem
I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.
~ Jim Harbaugh
I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
~ Will McDonough
He couldn't understand today. Who can? How can you pay a man a hundred thousand dollars a year to hit a baseball or put a basketball though a hoop—and pay a teacher only twelve thousand a year to teach a kid to become a citizen? Is that waste? Give it some thought.
~ William Campbell Gault
We had also created 2,500 401(k) millionaires because employees had invested in Honeywell, with 95 percent of them below the executive level and the lowest compensated earning an annual salary of only $43,000.
~ David Cote
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
~ David Eddings
It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.
~ David Lagercrantz
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
~ John F. Kennedy
President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.
~ Sam Ewing
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
~ Terry Pratchett
I can't afford to pay them any other way.
~ Andrew Carnegie
I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the earth because I figure, a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, 'Just come on up.'
~ James Wood
Since there is such desperation to hire black faculty, black professors are constantly being wooed from campus to campus with higher salary offers. Not surprisingly, blacks now make more money than whites with equivalent Ph.D.s.602
~ Jared Taylor
Once every year we review market rates and issue raises automatically. Our target is to pay everyone at the company at the top 10 percent of the market regardless of their role. So whether you work in customer support or ops or programming or design, you'll be paid in the top 10 percent for that position.
~ Jason Fried
For my last 15 years at United I had a rolling one-year contract and an agreement that if I was sacked I would be entitled to two years' salary, even if I turned up and started managing Manchester City the day after I was fired. That was more than enough for me.
~ Alex Ferguson
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
~ George Herman
It's alright people saying they get £100,000-a-week, they get paid well or whatever, but they want to play football.
~ Paul Merson
I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.
~ John Schnatter
I mean, really, compared to a senior civil servant, I'm very modestly paid!
~ David Starkey
If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.
~ Stephen J. Dubner
I tried to collect myself. Tired. Tired like a zombie. An overworked zombie, one who got hired as a salaried assistant manager at a zombie video store, only to find out "salaried" just means he doesn't get paid for overtime
~ David Wong
Avoid discussing salary—he who gives a number first loses negotiating power. If backed into a corner, give a salary range rather than a finite number. Base your range on competitive data.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson