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[Spirit is] doing an all-out blitz right now to get people in there to support their needs, ... I also assume they're offering very market-competitive salaries.

Bob Brewer

It just shows that the Yankees, with their history and with their payroll and with their all-stars, they're not bullet-proof. In between the lines, there's no salaries and no world champions. It's nine on nine, plus your bullpen and your bench and it just shows anyone can win.

Jonny Gomes

First and foremost, money. Some of these A-list coaches that are out there right now are going to command huge salaries -- well over $1 million.

Tony Haynes

The customer is getting hammered and there is no way our salaries are increasing that fast.

Charlie Higley

For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people's salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones ... etc.

Joseph Biden

This investment is a win-win. Teachers' salaries are increased, student achievement is improved and the taxpayer gets a good deal.

Glenna Fletcher

This government will not increase the salaries. If you do that all you will get is an increase in ghost gangs.

Patrick Manning

If we do wind up with extra money, it would be my wish we use it for salaries.

Patty Hightower

They don't pay their bills with bonuses. They pay their bills with salaries.

Gayle Fallon

I cut [some] out of salaries because I didn't want to eliminate the materials budget altogether - that's what it essentially would have done otherwise.

Rosann Sanders

However, should the federations want to give higher salaries (than the limit), they would have to raise the money themselves.

Kusnan Ismukanto

Throughout Florida, house prices are up dramatically. The question is: Are ours up higher compared to salaries?, ... I suspect they might be because we are a low-salary county.

Bill Kelly

The way Greenville is beating our pants off is not with their 2 and 3 percent higher salaries. They are offering new teachers a brand new classroom, while we are offering that new teacher a broken-down portable. Now where would you choose to teach?

Alex Saitta

Rutgers students are receiving multiple job offers and negotiating higher entry-level salaries, and companies are spending more advertising dollars to recruit on campus.

Richard White

If the money were there, I think we'd be closer than we are. I don't want to spend all our money on salaries and the find out our roof leaks.

Jerry Frament

Our main cost is people ? salaries and staff.

Steve Miskin

Other than the salaries and parts, it's become our biggest expense. It passed rent a year or so ago.

Linda Austin

This fund will mainly help pay salaries of government officials and equip their offices.

Andrew Natsios

This speaks to us receiving a $1,800 increase added to our base salaries.

John Pinder

You didn't have a job half the time and couldn't get a meal for your family to eat. But I'll say this: Today, your salaries are bigger, but the prices eat it all up.

Phil Harding

My average students aren't getting those salaries.

Phil Gardner

It's a very good job hunting season. The average starting salary for accounting and finance majors is around $35,000, for business and management majors it's $36,000 and computer sciences majors top the charts at $46,000 average starting salaries.

Tim Mcdonough

We've spent most of the day getting back to where we were [Saturday]. There's been no discussion of economics, no discussion of salaries, no discussion of health care.

Bob Bedard

This reduction of the real value of salaries has not found understanding by political, social leaders or presidents, to give the Dominican population adjustments in their incomes.

Rafael Abreu

The bulk of the increase is due to salaries and benefits. But utility costs have become a major factor. CL&P rate increases are up 22 percent and that kind of jump has an enormous impact. And coupled with heating fuel increases of 138 percent, it's astounding.

Frank Connolly

The amount of government funding has not been keeping up with costs of providing higher education, which is why colleges have to cut back on professors' salaries.

John Curtis

Our salaries have slipped below the high schools in our area.

William Lewis

That's staff salaries. That's the only cost they have for the club there.

Wendy Atkinson

These have been fast-growing sectors, and are expected to continue to be. They also pay average- to above-average salaries. But certainly, we will always have underemployed folks in a rapidly changing economy. I just don't know how many.

Michael Walden

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Paul Chan

That's the tough thing for the retired players, trying to equate their salaries with the salaries of today. It doesn't translate.

Andre Collins

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

Al Spalding

The salaries are confidential and we keep it confidential.

Dave Powell

These kinds of comparisons are having a knock-on effect by dragging everyone else up with them. The idea is that lots of UK executives go abroad because of high salaries, but in reality there are only a very small number of global players.

Steve Tatton

There are many schools that are opening their doors to people to come back to school, to learn about pharmacy work and the opportunities are endless, and the salaries are quite good.

Deborah Russell

What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.

David Bellamy

They [the disabled] are often taken advantage of, and are forced to work for longer hours for smaller salaries.

Sahar Tabaja

Obviously, salaries was the big difference with the NHL But other than that, you got treated really well. It was a pro organization. It's a pro sport, and it's top hockey, excellent hockey.

Greg Johnston

What this means is every teacher's salary will increase by at least $4,100 a year. By 2009, compared to the salaries they're receiving today, they will get at least $4,100.

Rep. Dave Heaton

We call on you to transfer all aid to the Palestinian treasury. We assure you that all the revenues will be spent on salaries, daily life and infrastructure.

Ismail Haniyeh

The state can't give us any more than they have, just like we can't pay salaries with money we don't have.

Ronald Whitehead

So we?re paying teacher salaries on a scale with districts that are much richer than we are, and one of the only ways to make all this better is to increase the value of the property in the community.

Barry Robertson

We need to offer good salaries there because we are in a very competitive world and want good people.

Connie Williams

Star salaries are rising, production costs are rising, and [major] studios are owned by media conglomerates that are not necessarily doing well.

Christopher Null

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Bill Vaughn

Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point.

Luis Alvarez

Registered nurses start at $20 to $25 an hour in a hospital. But salaries soon flatten out.

Paula Stearns

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospitals.

Chris Fowler

(Gibbons) would certainly like to be able to provide increased pay for teachers who are truly meeting expectations. He does believe that in order to recruit the best and brightest, it would be nice if we could increase salaries. There's a lot of needs in this state.

Robert Uithoven

In between the lines, there's no salaries ... it's nine-on-nine plus your bullpen and your bench, and it just shows anyone can win. It's a bulldog attitude.

Jonny Gomes

Every year, it's fill-in-the-blank versus teacher salaries.

Tom Long

Small-business salaries are rising from the dead. That's good news for small business employees, but it may not be great news for the overall economy. Inflation is rearing its ugly head and may soon stifle economic growth.

Michael Alter

We respect the result of the election, and we respect the people and the government, but this doesn't mean we have to starve to death. The government is talking about alternatives to secure money for salaries, but until now they have showed us nothing.

Abu Hassan

The city has made a mess of firefighters' salaries because of the restructuring process, which is taking far too long.

Helen Zille

It will trigger higher payment pressure on borrowers in those months. I will not recommend the product to our clients since most Chinese still earn fixed monthly salaries.

Wang Lei

Mexico is upside down. Everything that should have gone up -- employment, salaries, competitiveness -- has gone down. And what should have gone down -- insecurity, taxes, oil prices and electricity rates -- has gone up.

Roberto Madrazo

These are very good jobs with high salaries in a growing industry that is very important to Georgia.

Jeffrey Humphreys

Someone put it best the other day. What better investment in education can we make than in our teachers. We can have all the buildings, supplies ... but if we don't have teachers, it won't matter, and until we get salaries up we can't compete with other states.

Dr. Tommy Bice

I'm representing myself in this case because I can't afford to hire an attorney. It doesn't seem right somehow that I'm paying the salaries of the lawyers on the other side, too.

Bob Reeder

To keep the peso stable they are channeling money into the economy. The price they will pay is inflation eroding the value of salaries and discouraging investment in the country.

Henry Stipp

Access to health care would far outweigh any kind of reduction in doctor's salaries.

Dan Mistich

We have provided competitive salaries, affordable wages and good pensions to our employees and remain committed to do that.

Joe Mcinerney

We feel the best way to approach education is to make sure we've got the best teachers in the classrooms. You keep them there by paying better teachers higher salaries.

Tim Murtaugh

Some (salaries) are too high, some are too low, and until the IRS looked into it in 2004, no one knew.

Mike Dobzinski

Ninety-nine percent of the money goes out. There is no administrative cost, no salaries.

Ivan Olinsky

We want to be sure we have it all right. Reconciling all the various salaries between the two companies was more complicated than expected. We didn't want to put it in place before it was ready.

David Allen

It would be important and also an improvement for us if we could increase the starting salaries for our teachers, and I think that would also bring in a larger pool of people we could choose from.

Mark Zeller

We need to increase the salaries of our teachers because we're $6,000 below the national average. And that just will not cut it.

Rep. Arthenia Joyner

The court's rulings validate that individual public school employees have the right to advocate for better salaries, benefits, working conditions and employment contracts for all public school employees.

Michael Kramer

We've got to get salaries up to where they need to be -- that definitely needs to be a priority. But you've also got to get these people something to work with. We keep annexing and not adding staff to cover the new areas, and we have to do that.

Dave Watson

We are too fat at the top. To hire people at salaries higher than the mayor doesn't set a good precedent.

Rose Ferlita

The increase is to attract and retain employees. As we try to do recruitment we are not getting the right number of qualified candidates, and then we have to take a look at our salaries to find out what's at issue.

Yvonne Hester

Coach salaries or stipends would vary tremendously, from no stipend to $7,000 or $8,000. Probably $9,000 would be the highest I have heard of.

Judith Young

Mexico is in reverse. All things that should be up — jobs, salaries, competitiveness — are down. And all that should be down — insecurity, taxes, gas prices — has gone up.

Roberto Madrazo

The [health care] prices for all our members are going through the roof. People on the bottom end are paying for those salaries.

Rob Feckner

The basic items included are wages and salaries, but we also count Social Security benefits and dividends and interest income. We also include earnings from the self-employed, health care benefits and contributions to retirement accounts.

David Lenze

I couldn't believe the exuberant salaries and the things going on without our knowledge.

Dave Reed

There is a push to make boards more diverse but people without large corporate salaries, such as academics, would be reluctant to become directors without guaranteed payment.

Charles Peck

The fact we saw 10 percent of organizations freezing salaries was astronomical. It was a really unusual year.

Ken Abosch

Jobs and employers are not increasing their salaries by 21 percent or 16 percent why don't you do us a favor why don't you forgo your salaries so you can feel the bite as much as we do.

Mike Gray

If you only look at salaries, we don't look very good. But if you look at total compensation, we look pretty good.

Scott Patterson

That's translated into higher salaries, particularly for multimedia professionals. We've seen an increase in demand for interactive designers, graphic designers, and for people with Internet and Flash skills.

Larry Robertson

In addition, on the issue of grade compression, employees who meet or exceed their performance targets will receive an additional fixed amount to their basic salaries if their annual salaries fall below a specified threshold.

Charlotte Mokoena

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities. If they don't have the ability to secure our salaries and to guarantee good living conditions for the people, they either have to step aside or to ask the people what the next step must be. They cannot act alone.

Abu Hassan

On a teacher's salary, no teacher could ever afford dependent care. Job number one (in the Legislature) is to repair education finance so we can pay salaries.

Vicky Rudy

We wouldn't have to change the system if all the department heads and elected officials would agree to send (unspent salaries and benefits) back to the general fund.

Scott Jordan

When you cut young programs you do more damage than good. You don't save that much, you save the coaches' salaries. I don't want to think about where we'd cut, I would rather think in the other direction.

Bob Holt

If foreign truckers have lower salaries and lower regulatory costs, then they will provide service at a lower price, which we have to use in order to be more competitive.

Harold Martinez

The entertainment media is changing. The currency a movie star had was the ability to put people in the seats. They command enormous salaries. But simply having a star in a movie isn't enough. Young audiences don't have the same loyalties and interests that previous generations have. That's why there is so much panic in the industry.

Allan Mayer

We weren't able to establish an exact date and time when we will reach or sign the agreement, but certainly what was reiterated at the last monitoring committee meeting is that we are aiming to have an agreement on salaries and allowances by the 31st of March.

Dwayne Jones

Many companies are reporting annual turnover percentages in the high teens to the low 20s. You might expect that in the fast-food business, but not for people making salaries north of $60,000.

Harris Miller

That is way out of line for a city this size. We need to offer competitive salaries, but be efficient. We may be more efficient without a director, and letting the manager of each utility do his job.

Mike Todd

I respect our players. They're prepared to forgo $1 billion in salaries this year alone and maybe hundreds of millions -- if not a billion -- next year. You've got to respect that. I don't always understand it, but I respect it.

Gary Bettman

Hospitals will be fighting and clawing for the next several years just to stay even. There's a lot of pressure on hospital expenses - nursing salaries, the need to invest in technology, things we weren't even doing before.

Mike Cohill

Based on the budget we were looking at, this levy will be used for the operating budget, salaries, repairs and maintenance, no capital improvements.

Wade Estep

We confirm to you this income will be used to pay the salaries of [government] employees and fund daily running costs and infrastructure. You [donors] can confirm this through a mechanism that can be agreed upon.

Ismail Haniyeh

We've seen a 3.5 percent increase overall in salaries for creative and communications marketing professionals. That's a healthy industry outlook.

Larry Robertson

I'm definitely interested in financial stability at KDNK. I want to have good salaries, equipment and space.

Steve Skinner

We thought that it was interesting that the governor enumerated dozens of programs that he was here marketing money for and nowhere in there was there anything for salaries.

Mark Pudlow

Just last year is the first time that housing costs lost us a few candidates. I think the thing that we'll have to do over time is to pay higher salaries; that's the only way to address it.

Laurey Stryker

If you're hot, you know you may only be in demand for a short period of time, so you negotiate the best possible deal. Severance packages have been bubbling up little by little in the last 10 to 15 years as executive salaries and compensation have been.

Alan Sklover

When they exceed the number of faculty, that sort of sends up a warning flag of what's happening here. These are not the people who are making minimum salaries. I'm not happy about it.

Bob Brady

I feel it is correct to publish the salaries.

Dieter Zetsche

Obviously, we want to see more dollars put to early childhood education and . . . teacher salaries. He looks forward to working the differences out.

Jennifer Mullin

We are also looking at capping pilot salaries, which have been continuously moving northward.

Jeh Wadia

We've heard from a large number of Pasco deputies. The typical concerns that most law enforcement officers share is working conditions, discipline, promotions and salaries.

Kevin Durkin

As far as players are concerned, they are entertainers. You look at the top entertainers, whether they are pop stars or actors, and salaries are relative. I think people are getting more realistic, and that has been reflected in the financial results of the clubs.

Phil Gartside

We are entering teacher negotiations here, so I will have to go to the board to find out what to put in for salaries.

Susan Fisher

Employees may find that they deliver three times the amount of work worth their salaries, which indicates how hard times are and that rewards are performance-based.

Peter Olsen

Take softball, for instance. They have to fund-raise for softballs. We don't give them any softballs. All the maintenance is done by one of the parents. Even the chalk, we don't pay for that. We don't pay for anything except the salaries, transportation and officials and we don't have enough to cover that.

Craig Ellingson

Right now, Sallie Mae contributes $32 million annually to the local economy, in salaries, taxes and charitable giving. We estimate these new jobs will add $11 million to that figure.

Tom Joyce

Some of them actually reported the cash payments, but Eddie understood that they might not do that. Eddie also did not have his corporation deduct those payments as salaries or wages, so the corporation ended up paying more tax than it should have. It overpaid in amounts many times more than the government claimed it lost by virtue of this behavior.

Hank Asbill

Salaries used to be a fairly secretive issue between the employer and the employee, but now there is far more information available and it is easier to find out what people are paid. But the way people are paid has become far more complicated as it is not just a direct relation to the money they take home.

Andrew Walker

In that $1.2 billion spent, that's not just going to salaries or studio rentals, it's going to purchases that are very wide-based.

Paul Clausen

With the salaries today, the players more than ever before have a great deal to say about it. They have a direct line to the GM or owner.

Cotton Fitzsimmons

I think the owners got a deal very favorable to them, ... It gives them leeway to do more than they should be able to do with our salaries.

Jeremy Roenick

Starting in 2004, we started to see salaries rise again. In 2002 and 2003 we saw a lot of decreases because of the economy, but it's really good news that we're continuing to see increases.

Andrea Koncz

The cost of employee salaries are more than covered.

Joe Pesaturo

Its always a bad time to increase public officials' salaries. But the auditor and mayor positions bring with them a tremendous responsibility. They are a very critical part of making this city function, and I would be in favor of it.

Richard Waugh

We are completely opposed to it. If a salary cap was introduced in Australian rugby, you would immediately see a mass exodus of players to Europe and Japan, where the salaries on offer are far higher.

Tony Dempsey

If I'm paying those guys' salaries, I don't want them in there. It's a joke. Why do we even have replay officials if they're not going to call that?

Wes Walz

Look at ticket prices to the Rose Bowl or NCAA Final Four -- they're pretty high, even though those players don't get paid. If it was player salaries driving, the tickets would be much cheaper.

Bruce Johnson

I think everyone wants salaries to increase. Salaries are going to need to increase if we want to attract teachers.

Brian Phillips

As employment expands and wages and salaries firm, a broader spectrum of consumers will be in better financial shape, which should help lift sales more evenly across the board.

Rosalind Wells

There are two things in our district that we need to work on that would help us recruit the best and brightest and that is to increase teacher salaries and improve facilities.

Annette Craig

If qualified employees can't be found, the hotels must increase salaries to attract candidates from other industries such as restaurants, banks and insurance companies.

James Lu

The superintendent asked for their new job descriptions to be evaluated in terms of their placement on the central office salary schedule. The review by the human resources department concluded that their salaries should be increased and the superintendent approved the changes for both individuals.

Deborah Long

He has a keen understanding that a healthy business climate translates into more jobs, better salaries and improved benefits for our citizens.

Barney Bishop

I think it's reasonable for people to expect that the district will be talking to its unions during current and upcoming negotiations about salaries and benefits in the context of its budget deficit.

Guy Cahill

There's no question that low salaries are affecting us. We manage to get some good people despite the salary levels because of our location, but that's not always the case.

Chris Hunter

Often when discussions of teacher salaries are going on, people are comparing themselves to the national average, ... We're suggesting that might not be the best comparison. People in other cities might be paying more for housing and food, and their dollars might not go as far.

Matt Moore

We've been able to get grants to help fund repairs on the homes but our money is a little low for the overhead and for paying two of our employees' salaries here.

Jill Davidson

The profits from our book sales are used to pay the salaries of Campus Center and cafeteria employees.

Joyce Dill

The little things don't hurt anything, and they may help retention, ... But they aren't the panacea that they might have been at one time. The big thing right now is simply salaries.

Danny Murphy

When 80 percent to 85 percent of the money is already directed toward salaries, you can't make any real headway in your budget without looking at personnel.

Ronnie Arnold

This is the market. If you think this is not right you will have to convince all the biggest health employers in the country to drop their salaries.

Steve Buick

There is no doubt the government will have to borrow to finance the salaries and this is destructive economically.

Eric Bloch

My concern is when we start adding headcount, ... We're saying with a few tickets here and a few tickets there, we're going to make up (their salaries and benefits.) I have a concern about that.

Eric Turner

There's a certain glamour in IT now; it's the glamour of the dot-com. A lot of kids are attracted to the major because they hear about the great job offers and the high salaries.

Eleanor Jordan

Years of government interference in schools has meant that despite rising salaries there simply aren't enough people prepared to do the job.

Ed Davey