Sentence examples for rather than earnings from inspiring English sources

Since 1980, the BSP has generally been uprated each year with prices rather than earnings.

Britain has quite a stingy basic state pension because of a Thatcher-era decision (reversed by the new coalition) to link payments to prices rather than earnings.

But the professors foresaw that argument: They reached nearly identical results when they looked at sales growth rather than earnings growth.

For the vast majority of middle-income taxpayers, the Budget was broadly neutral or slightly negative, as salary increases will outpace the rise in personal allowances for 2004-2005, whave have largely been pegged to inflation rather than earnings.

Accrual rates – the rate at which pension benefits are built up – have been approved across the schemes, but Alexander told MPs that this was offset by a lower revaluation linked to prices rather than earnings.

Economists at the World Bank think the answer is to eliminate hidden subsidies by switching pensions to defined contributions rather than defined benefits and basing health-insurance benefits on premiums rather than earnings.Latin America has already gone a long way towards creating a universal safety-net in the past two decades, but coverage remains patchy.

The league is seeking a redefinition of what constitutes hockey-related revenue, calling for net earnings rather than gross earnings to be counted for things like concessions, parking and club seats.

The two measures differ because the ONS compares median hourly earnings – rather than annual earnings – and excludes overtime.

First, much of the problem would go away if people paid attention to diluted earnings per share rather than basic earnings per share.

(Much better to look at trailing, rather than prospective, earnings, because profit forecasts are still ludicrously high investors are expecting a 20% rise in American earnings next year, according to Dresdner Kleinwort).But the problem is not the ratios; it is the earnings.

Minimum wages are traditionally based on an assessment of what employers can afford (though George Osborne's new version targets 60% of the typical wage) rather than the earnings a household actually needs to get by.