Workers are mostly attracted by the high salaries, currently estimated to be more than double the national average.
Universities could likely find some extra money by cutting (or not continuing to increase) the salaries of senior management, with vice-chancellor salaries currently averaging £260,000 a year ("klepto-remuneration" is what George Monbiot termed such pay inequalities).
Openings in the district of about 3,100 students -- where the teaching salaries currently range from $30,535 to $57,285 -- include a high school science teacher, an industrial arts teacher, a physical education teacher, a part-time substance abuse awareness coordinator, a head for the science department in the high school and a foreign language teacher.
For that amount of money, the VA could instead hire five neurosurgeons, 10 psychiatrists and five suicide prevention case managers at the average salaries currently offered on USAJobs.
In recent years, several federal judges have stepped down from the bench, bemoaning their low salary, currently $174,000 a year.
With the cost of raising the children already taken into account by lenders, child maintenance payments are based on a proportion of the other parent's salary, currently £31,600 for men and £24,475 for women according to PayScale.com, and can form a significant part of a single-parent household's income.
Jason Zillwood, a London-based Deloitte & Touche accountant who works in the firm's soccer industry group, reports that no Premiership League player salary currently tops $3 million.
No lifetime salary (currently near $200K annually), no multi-million dollar office budget that citizens now ante up every year, no matching millions to help run the Bush presidential library.
The owners now propose to undertake some form of self-imposed revenue sharing, in the interest of competitive as well as fiscal balance, but only on condition that the players, through their union, the Major League Baseball Players Association, agree to an imposed cap on their salaries, which currently consume more than 50% of the average team's budget (or close to a billion dollars, all told).
The owners now propose to undertake some form of self-imposed revenue sharing, in the interest of competitive as well as fiscal balance, but only on condition that the players, through their union, the Major League Baseball Players Association, agree to an imposed cap on their salaries, which currently consume more than 50% of the average team's budget (or close to a billion dollars, all told)..
All Afghan police salaries are currently being paid for by donor nations, and with the US Congress approving drastic cuts to its aid budget post-2014, he may well be right to be worried.
