Salary Determination Quotes

Though few hiring managers would deliberately choose to offer women less money than their male counterparts, when using salary history to determine compensation, they unintentionally preserve the status quo. Too often, women will have a lower salary history, and, therefore get a lower offer.

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

You cannot set salaries by decree. At the end of the day, it doesn't work with the market. What you can make sure to do is to train workers in order to make them more efficient and demand higher salaries because of their qualifications.

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

One of the biggest mistakes of the Constitution is the provision that lets Congressman set their own salaries …. These should be set by the home state which they represent based on their perception of the worth of the representative.

In WCW, your future was determined by the time you signed the contract. I was the lowest-paid guy in the company at $75,000.

I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.

If you don't want to join a union, you're gonna have much more opportunity for individual expansion, individual expression of talent and achievement. But when you go to work at a place where salaries are predetermined not by your productivity and not by your talent and not by how much you work, but rather by what the union contract is, you're locked into that no matter how good a job you do. The only option you have is overtime to make more than what standard pay is.