At Foxconn, the basic salary for an assembly line worker in Shenzhen is expected to rise from 900 renminbi ($132) a month to 1,200 renminbi ($176).
In fact if these reviews had been accepted, the basic salary for an MP would now be £108,000 – still less than the head of a London secondary school but still more than it is now.
The Berlin Philharmonic players earn a basic salary for so many sessions a week, and everything else (extra concerts, TV shows, recordings etc) is an extra fee.
A higher basic salary for MPs would have allowed most expenses and allowances to be abolished, they say.
Another pointed out that WPP had been preparing the ground after pointing out on a number of occasions that he had not had a rise in his basic salary for 2008, 2009 and 2010.
With no mark-up from drugs now possible, the basic salary for the majority of doctors remains low. 10 A series of experimental initiatives aiming to augment doctors' income are being launched, such as pay-for-performance and raising prices of services, including consultation fees and procedures.
So there it is: it was private sector exective pay that rose by 78% (2002-07); basalarylary for CEO's in the biggest councils (2008-08) rose by a third.
If things remain cordial and a player does leave, he would tend to waive his basic salary for the rest of his contract but would be paid any signing-on or loyalty fees due.
But the basic salary for entry-level junior doctors is at the other end of the scale, alongside jobs in the public sector.
The company's remuneration committee will pump up her basic salary for the year to the end of September 2010 by £95,000, some 31%, to £400,000.
