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Proposed Federal Wage Freeze
As the federal deficit begins to approach $14 Trillion dollars, new proposals are underway to reduce government spending. The latest being considered is a freeze on government employee wages for the next two years. The average annual government employee salary is now over $80,000 dollars as compared to just slightly over $50,000 dollars for private […]
In: Business Stories · Tagged with: Billion Dollars, Budget, Employee Salary, Employee Wages, Federal Deficit, Federal Employees, Federal Jobs, Federal Proposal, Federal Wages, Financial Health, Government Employee, Government Employees, Gum, Painful Sacrifice, Private Sector Employees, Proposals, Salary Information, Trillion, Wage Freeze
A Tale of Two CEO’s
This year Lola Gonzalez, CEO of Accurate Background Check of Ocala Florida had a difficult decision to make. After crunching the numbers for her business, she determined that she would need to layoff one of her 8 person staff. In a company employee meeting, she dropped the bombshell news that someone would have to be […]
In: Business Stories · Tagged with: Accurate Background, Background Check, Bombshell, Ceo, Ceo Salaries, Company Staff, Corporate Layoffs, Difficult Decision, job, jobs, Johnson And Johnson, Lead, Led, Lola Gonzalez, Million Dollars, Ocala Florida, Person Staff, Salary Information, Staff Meeting, Surprise, William Weldon
College Presidents Earning More Than $1 Million Dollars
Even as the numbers of students declines in colleges (mainly due to a large number of foreign students no longer coming to the US) the pay packages for many of these institution’s presidents are escalating. In many cases, running one of these institutions of higher learning can end up being more lucrative than running a […]
In: Business Stories · Tagged with: 1 Million Dollars, Amy Gutmann, Bringing Home The Bacon, Chapman University, College Presidents, Columbia University President, Fortune 500 Company, Institutions Of Higher Learning, James L Doti, John Sexton, Lee C Bollinger, Nancy Cantor, New York University, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Richard C Levin, Shirley Ann Jackson, Southern Methodist University, University Chancellor, Vanderbilt University, Yeshiva University
