Sentence examples for pay consultancy from inspiring English sources
"When I started work in the 1970s," recalls Vicky Wright, global head of remuneration and benefits consulting for Hay Group, a pay consultancy, "a lot of people would join a company at 16, 18 or 21 and expect to stay right the way through.
Meetings and the time demands on members have doubled in the past few years, says Steven Hall of Pearl Meyer, an American pay consultancy.
Pearl Meyer, a large pay consultancy, surveyed the compensation of chief executives of 200 American firms that filed their results for 2002 earlier this year.
A survey last October by William M. Mercer, a pay consultancy, found that 19% of companies had cut the pay increase they originally planned in their budgets.
Over $130,000.Matt Ward, of WestWard Pay, a Silicon Valley pay consultancy, says wage inflation is being driven by the "new Grapes of Wrath.com" types coming from the old economy to Silicon Valley to get rich quick.
Ira Kay of Watson Wyatt, another pay consultancy, reckons that 90% of American quoted companies have some options "under water"—ie, the share price is below that at which the options were issued.
A typical riposte is that the market is rigged: pay is set by board committees comprised of other chief executives or friendly directors dependent on the chairman, advised by pay consultancies hired by the managers themselves.
The committees in turn are advised by pay consultancies – a tight-knit circle of executive pay experts who are adept at devising new schemes and incentives that lead to ever-higher pay.
Penalise failure too harshly and "you risk creating bureaucrats," says Ira Kay of Pay Governance, an executive-pay consultancy.Bronze parachutes will doAbolishing all golden parachutes would be foolish.
The former News Corp and Fairfax Media executive was appointed by the ABC board in April to undertake the review, a paid consultancy for which he will receive about $30,000.
The Littlewood Road flats were one of the team's projects: they provided paid consultancy services to the Bernard Taylor Partnership, the architects commissioned by the Willow Park Housing Trust.
