Sentence examples for pay was tied from inspiring English sources

Rank-and-file factory workers received profit bonuses, and executive pay was tied to profitability.

Pay was tied to profit, and profit to the easy, borrowed money that could be invested in markets like mortgage securities.

According to a former analyst at the firm, Mr. Grubman's pay was tied specifically to the deals that the firm did in telecommunications.

Because promotions were take-it-or-leave-it offers and pay was tied to size of assets controlled (small by definition in new ventures) rather than difficulty of task, even dedicated innovators saw the virtues of leaving their projects midstream.

When members of the medical staff wanted to discharge a patient for good health, hospice managers — whose pay was tied to enrollment — resisted, according to Brian Billings, a physician in McPherson, Kan., who worked for HCK from 2003 until 2007.

"That's a call that senior management or risk management should question, but of course their pay was tied to it too," said Brian Lin, a former mortgage trader at Merrill Lynch.

"Their pay is tied to their mentoring skills".

And that would be particularly unfair for teachers whose evaluation and pay are tied to those test scores.

Given the choice between a system in which teachers' pay is tied to performance, and one in which pay is tied solely to tenure, choose the former, but improve it.The devil, as always, is in the details.

The stakes are even higher in Indiana, where teachers' merit pay is tied to student performance on the tests.

To the extent that executive pay is tied to the value of specified securities, such pay could be tied to a broader basket of securities, not only common shares.