Sentence examples for salaries for doing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cooley said council members "illegally gamed the system to receive ridiculous salaries for doing no work".

Most other government advisers seem to be paid vast salaries for doing very little, and this is always thought to be perfectly proper.

As universities fret over their places in the market free-for-all, the sector is now overrun with managers proffering their big ideas for institutional survival, and taking even bigger salaries for doing so.

It's about the room where New York City schoolteachers who have been dismissed for incompetence sit for years on end and continue to collect their six-figure salaries for doing nothing.

Moreover, it was the example of New York investment bankers, earning gigantic salaries for doing essentially nothing -- knowing the right people, talking smoothly, showing up at closings -- that encouraged businesspeople out in the rest of America to feel entitled to smoke-and-mirrors cash bonanzas of their own.

She doesn't get paid a six figure salary for doing it.

But critics say Sutherland chose to quit and therefore should not be entitled to a year's salary for doing nothing.

Others think he was hired to win an election, won that election and picked up his salary for doing so, and therefore doesn't need any additional prize for fulfilling his job description.

Or in other words, accept being paid a decent executive salary for doing your job properly – particularly one that has a public service element like running the rail network or, say, lending to small businesses around the UK.

For example, if, as Commissioner Edith Cresson did, you take advantage of your office to appoint an old friend as your "special adviser", and hand him a fat salary for doing nothing much, you should try to choose somebody less intrinsically comic for the role than a retired provincial dentist.

It tells them what to do, and it pays them a wage or salary for doing it.