Sentence examples for percentage raise from inspiring English sources

In an unusual move, the panel broke with tradition by giving the police officers a larger percentage raise than firefighters had received over the same two-year period.

Richard Bean, chairman of the board of regents of the system, said the pay package was appropriate and added that Mr. McCall got the same percentage raise as members of the faculty.

Mr. Silver proposed to alter a section of the original bill in a way that would grant lawmakers the same percentage raise as judges — yes, nearly 21percentt — instead of the cost-of-living increase proposed in the original.

Unhappy about the two-year pay freeze in their contracts, New York City's municipal unions are warning that they will not accept such a freeze again, while several labor leaders are demanding an end to pattern bargaining, in which every union receives the same percentage raise.

"That incremental negotiation you do at the front end continues to pay you back when it's time for a percentage raise," says Ball.

I wonder if Pentecostals, by percentage, raise their hands on rides more than pew-stiff mainline denominational riders.

(Bonuses, of course, don't figure into future percentage raises).

In the 1970's, after a long fight, the winemakers got the percentage raised to 75percentt.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said he did not know whether a tax increase would be necessary if other unions were given the same percentage raises as the police.

These leaders insisted that unless the city gives teachers and police officers larger percentage raises than other municipal workers, the city would find it increasingly difficult to attract qualified teachers and police officers.

He said that the clerical workers' union wanted annual percentage raises of 6, 6, 6.5 and 7percentt in the last four years of a six-year pact and that the janitors and dining hall workers' union wanted raises of 3.5, 4, 4.5 and 5percentt in years three, four, five and six.