"pay stakes" is correct and usable in written English
This phrase is often used to refer to the consequences of a particular action or decision. For example, you could say "He was willing to pay the stakes of breaking the law in order to get what he wanted."
What has resulted in the pay stakes is a divergence from the rest of society.
Even without the recent bad news, quarter of a century after the Equal Pay Act women still haven't caught up in the pay stakes.
The leaked 24-page paper, which conceded that firefighters had slipped in the pay stakes, proposed phasing in the award over two years - 6.8% this month, 4.35% in April and 4.2% next November.
It has taken 10 months for the two sides to settle their pay dispute, with employers claiming that they could not afford more than a 3% increase and the unions insisting more was needed to stop their members falling behind in the public service pay stakes.
But it also raises questions about how they found $60 million to pay for stakes in a team they already control — and why they waited until just before the settlement to spend it.
In August 2012 Abramovich won a suit in the High Court in London brought by Berezovsky who had been seeking $5.6 billion he claimed Abramovich failed to pay for stakes in Sibneft and Rusal.
The pull of agency work and private sector No wonder the NHS is suffering from staff shortages, considering the pay at stake working for agencies and the private sector.
BP said it will pay $7 billion for stakes in 10 exploration blocks in Brazil, 240 leases in the Gulf of Mexico, and a 5.6% stake in Azerbaijan assets, of which it already holds 39.8%.
COMCAST CORP., Philadelphia, the cable operator, has agreed to pay cash for stakes in the Golf Channel and the Outdoor Life Network programs from the Fox Entertainment Group, New York.
Mr Young, for instance, discovered that listed companies in which the founding families have fairly large and traceable stakes pay higher dividends; they are under surveillance from the capital markets.
Plenty of Valley insiders could do without all that hype, especially when the result is having to pay more for stakes in YC's offspring.
