Sentence examples for compensation down from inspiring English sources

Robert Bruno, a labor relations professor at the University of Illinois, said Caterpillar was trying to drive compensation down to a new floor.

Well-paid Goldmanites will also feel the pinch with compensation down to 34 per cent of revenue, or $2.35bn, compared with an average of 42 per cent for the first half of the year.

So far this year Goldman has set aside more than $10bn for compensation, down 24% from the same period a year ago, and its workforce has fallen by 3% to 34,200.

"We were faced with a very difficult decision for me personally as chief executive and for the board because we are absolutely committed to driving the level of compensation down in the investment bank," Jenkins said.

Markets and regulation will bring total Wall Street compensation down toward other professions, because banks will not be able to load up on debt to magnify the size of the risky bets they make.

As a group they earned $3.1 billion in total compensation, down 35% from the previous year.

Liviu Bird has a thorough breakdown of the numbers on SB Nation, and his colleague Jeremiah Oshan pointed out on Twitter that total compensation was down (to $89 million from $99 million), average salary was down (to $160,000 from $179,000) but that the median salary was up ($89,000, from $85,000).

"Unless productivity improves or the rise in compensation slows down, unit-labor costs will be rising too rapidly to keep core inflation down to 2percentt," Mr. Gramley said.

"Our fixed compensation was down 8% year on year in the investment bank.

His compensation was down 99.7% on his 2008 haul of $38.2m.

He believes that the government should legislate to bring compensation ratios down.