Salary costs continued to be the biggest item in the cost structure, accounting for 50 per cent of the total.
Not exact matches
The
salary increase alone would
cost $ 30 million next year (it's being phased in), and
continuing the stipends would add an additional $ 12 million.
Company employees
continue to receive their
salary, with the EPSRC compensating the company for any time the employee must take off for academic studies, as well as any additional
costs incurred by the company in the course of the students» research.
What's commonly been defined as the district's budget gap in the past — the difference between the
cost to
continue existing programs and
salaries and what the district is allowed to tax under state revenue caps — is actually $ 1.2 million.
Home values
continue to rise and even though the average
salary is a bit lower than other places at $ 68,730, the low
cost of living allows your dollar to stretch further.
Profit squeeze: Mid-size law firms will
continue to be affected by a «profit squeeze» resulting from (a) increased overhead due to higher associate and staff
salaries and benefits; (b) higher automation
costs, professional liability insurance and marketing expenses; (c) partners» unwillingness / inability to increase hourly fee rates for «commodity» type work to off - set higher overhead; (d) enhanced client scrutiny of hourly rates, hours to produce work and lawyer and paralegal staffing of work assignments; (e) pressure by corporate counsel for law firms to absorb more of the «soft
costs;» (f) slower paying clients, that affect cash flow and hence the availability of distributable dollars for partners; and (g) a great many mid-size law firms are burdened with higher debt.
«Employment levels
continue to improve, resulting in tight labour markets and increasing
salaries; and stable interest rates have led home buyers to feel confident that the
cost of borrowing won't spike any time soon.»