The increase was helped by a rise in the minimum salary to $480,000 from $414,000.
In July 1998, without much notice, Mr. Olson raised the minimum salary to $25,000.
Miller's own new deal raised the minimum salary to $10,000 from $6,000, the first increase since the 1940s.
But to bring down the minimum salary to new hires to fifty thousand dollars — for a world-class orchestra — doesn't sound as attractive when you realize that the young players in question (unlike, say, Ivy League grads going into New York publishing) usually have expensive instruments and massive student loans to pay off.
It called for increasing wages by 3percentt for each of the next three years, raising the minimum salary to $20,000 a year, and giving everyone a raise of $6 a week starting in March, according to a letter to the staff from the president, Dr. Robert A. Scott.
Equally, provided the company has been funded and is paying a minimum salary to the entrepreneur (e.g. £15,000 to £20,000) the maintenance qualification would appear redundant.
Also, though half the apartments at Bruckner by the Bridge are reserved for residents of the borough's Community Board 1, the minimum salary required to qualify to live there — about $35,000 for a family of four — is far too steep for the area, critics point out.
The four-year agreement, which the league can extend for a fifth season, sets this year's salary cap at $622,000, with 4percentt annual cost-of-living increases; increases minimum veteran salaries to $42,000; and keeps minimum rookie salaries at $30,000.
There were councils who commissioned social care packages which simple arithmetic would have told them were insufficient to pay minimum wage salaries to the care workers.
Discounter Lidl raised minimum Swiss salaries to 4,000 francs last year and retailer H&M has vowed to follow suit next year.
