Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.
I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
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.
I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.
People go to work at Wall Street firms to make a lot of money. They may not love what they are doing, but the punishing hours and travel are incredibly well-compensated. By contrast, the engineers at technology firms do believe that they can change how we all live.
You wouldn’t need term limits if these [political] jobs don’t pay anything.
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.
I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.
Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.
From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.
