Others hold down jobs and receive a salary only in Cuban pesos.
If you were shelling out $60m£43m3m) a year in salaries, only to watch your staff create enough of a stink to be declared an environmental disaster, would you feel justified in dishing out some brutally honest feedback?
Jeremy says Far too many people, often at the start of their careers, snatch at jobs that offer the highest salaries only to find, a few years in, that they've got comfortably accustomed to the lifestyle that the money affords but get no other satisfaction from the job itself.
To demonstrate how seriously we are taking our CrunchCoin efforts, TechCrunch employees have unanimously decided to accept their salary payments only in blocs of CrunchCoin.
First, the science: studies show that an increase in salary only offers marginal to zero increase in 'happiness' above a certain level".
Even figures already known, like Mr. Bloomberg's token salary (he said in his autobiography that he takes in salary only what the company's lowest-paid employee receives), were divulged yesterday only in general terms.
Legend also has it that Kevin James was paid four hundred thousand dollars per episode of "King of Queens" starting in 2001, but Leah Remini reached that salary only after strenuous negotiations in the show's eighth and final season.
In contrast, French teachers start with a salary only slightly higher than those in England, and it only rises to around £26,000-28,000 after 10 years.
But they did benefit, as individuals, as well: not only in terms of salary, but in terms of their careers, in terms of being able to help their communities, in terms, even, of generating discussion about their country and their roles.
· Tier 2: Final year of salary only.
