Sentence examples for the highest compensation from inspiring English sources

So I still don't know if it's the highest compensation.

The highest compensation is given to businesses that were in the World Trade Center and have reopened elsewhere in the city, or that are in the neighborhood closest to the attack site.

"This will impact the most senior employees who have the highest compensation," said Jeanmarie McFadden, a spokeswoman for the firm, which is a unit of Credit Suisse, the Swiss bank.

Mr. Mack, the former president of Morgan Stanley, has said that he intends to cut costs at the firm, which is widely believed to have the highest compensation packages on Wall Street.

NBC's "Today" has continued to lag behind ABC's "Good Morning America" for 10 months now, a ratings slump that started just one week after its co-host, Matt Lauer, signed a contract with NBC said to be worth $25 million a year, the highest compensation ever on a morning show, Brian Stelter reports.

NEW YORK TIMES Risks Can Be Costly, but So Can Risk Officers | Bruce Thompson was paid $11.4 million last year as chief risk officer at Bank of America, the highest compensation for anyone at the company, reflecting a growing emphasis among banks on risk control executives after the financial crisis, Bloomberg News reports.

The DealBook column on Tuesday, about Wall Street firms' increasing compensation as a percentage of revenue, misidentified, in some copies, AT&T's acquisition target in a deal for which Greenhill & Company, which has one of the highest compensation-to-revenue ratios on Wall Street, served as an adviser.

Envy of the high compensation of others is not the reason behind the protests.

Scott Silvestri, a Bank of America spokesman, attributed the higher compensation costs to a "change in the business mix" after the Merrill Lynch deal.

Last year, the high compensation accrued across the banking industry -- at a time when most people were suffering from a recession partly created by bankers' excesses -- provoked an angry response.

It also makes the economic rationale of chief executives as a group hard to fathom.The stockmarket itself seems to have come to terms with the high compensation demands of securities firms by valuing them at a sharp discount to the market average, concludes Ira Kay, a compensation consultant at Watson Wyatt.