Sentence examples for paid compared from inspiring English sources

Contrary to popular perception, teachers are well paid compared with some of their foreign counterparts.

Earnings per share were down from 8.4p to 6.1p, and no dividend was paid, compared with 1.5p last year.

Even though they know they are well paid compared to most people, they, like many others, have seen their pay drop in real terms.

From Italy he takes their holiday entitlement (seven weeks paid, compared to America's 0); from Finland, their education system (fewer school hours, no standardised testing).

Pay at the top is accordingly peachy: £380,000 for the best paid, compared with £267,000 for the largest council chief's pay packet.

Nobody at Cheltenham is particularly well paid, compared with the private sector at least – a junior analyst might earn £25,000.

"The ratio of CEO pay compared to average employee pay is extreme at 138 1," Pirc noted.

We have levels of unfairness in our system that are pretty extreme in some ways, such as the difference in what international students pay compared with EU students.

The graphic below shows CEO pay compared with the average annual Australian pretax salary for a selection of large Australian companies.

The right comparison is what large banks are paying compared with what they would pay if they did not have implicit government backing.

This has made them more willing to buy high-yield bonds, and has pushed down the spread that riskier borrowers must pay compared with safer borrowers.