Employee Compensation Quotes

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

There is nothing to arbitrate. Workers have nothing to do with the amount of wages they shall receive. This is solely the business of the company.

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.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

I was happy working for £6 an hour.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules.

The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.'

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.

There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry is the minimum-wage business model. I say phooey to that. You go to a Costco store, and you see people there who've been working there for years and years. They're making $15, $20 an hour, plus health benefits.

We've discussed the public sector union people. We are messing with their bread and butter. They have their hands in the treasuries of all states in which they operate and the US Treasury. They have their hands there. That's how they live. Now, we're broke and the states are broke for a multitude of reasons. What they're being paid is among them.

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.

Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either.

In the kids' home I was in, there was very little change of staff. People stuck around, and they stuck around because they were being paid enough to stay there and raise their families. If you're not supporting the people looking after the kids, you're not supporting the kids, and you might as well chuck them all in the bin.

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.