Sentences with phrase «high incentive pay»

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«There's an incentive to move income from the higher tax - paying spouse to the lower tax - paying spouse.»

«We believe it critical for a listing exchange to ensure a high - quality displayed quote to reduce the cost of capital and share price volatility for its issuers, and in the absence of broader market structure reform, exchange - paid quoting incentives are a necessary mechanism in a highly fragmented US marketplace to support liquidity for listed companies,» Cunningham said in a letter to clients emailed to Business Insider.

You could give your best employees «golden handcuffs» by paying above market rates and providing incentives for them to be the highest paid employees in their field.

However, advocates of reforming executive pay — by linking it with performance and reducing incentives for risk - taking — argue the pay ceilings are so high they lack teeth.

There's an added incentive: its franchisor's commission pay scale is one of the highest in the tourism industry.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

Among HP's peer group companies, HP executives have a higher percentage of performance - based pay, which generally means smaller bonuses and lower overall compensation in years of low performance and higher bonuses and long - term incentive payouts in years of exceptional performance, reflective of the performance achieved.

This performance was reflected in our NEOs» cash incentive awards, which, consistent with our pay - for - performance philosophy, paid out at higher levels for fiscal 2013 than for fiscal 2012:

Mathrani, then the highest paid real estate investment trust executive, got an incentive of at least $ 2 million in 2015 and 2016 and a $ 25 million five - year equity retention grant.

The incentives promised to Amazon are now standard practice in America, where states, desperate for high - paying jobs, bend over backwards to accommodate business.

Today the White House announced major steps to improve incentives for future innovation in high tech patents, a key driver of economic growth and good paying American jobs.

For example, we will consider paying signing bonuses to compensate for amounts forfeited by an executive upon terminating prior employment, to assist with relocation expenses or to create additional incentive for an executive to join our company in a position where there is high market demand.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

However, the higher price paid for organic cotton has had a positive influence on the conventional price as buyers of conventional cotton are forced to offer better prices (although lower than that offered for organic cotton) and / or other incentives like farm tools in order to ensure their supplies.

While there are compelling reasons from the perspective of poorly paid (or unemployed) workers in eastern and southern Europe to relocate to higher wage economies in the west and north of Europe, there is little incentive for British workers to go to the post-2004 EU countries where the quality of life is lower and minimum wage is as low as # 1.36 per hour, if it exists at all.

Paterson is also proposing an early retirement incentive program in hopes of luring older and higher - paid public employees out of the system.

Rather than being a reflection of the marginal productivity of a new hyper - meritocratic managerial class, higher pay is due to executives» greater personal incentives to seek raises once income tax rates were relaxed.

He said county legislators should be mindful that he has been offered much higher paying jobs elsewhere and the incentive pay was a way for the IDA board to keep him.

The legislature's Republican minority also put forth a plan that would cull higher paid employees from the state's workforce by offering them an incentive to retire.

Legislators have neither the sweeping authority, nor strong political incentive, to change a political patronage machine that rewards party donors with high - paying posts and lucrative contracts.

«We found that managers with higher career ambition will be more responsive to incentive pay by taking more risks,» Wang said.

Some of the excellent new teachers the nation needs, Vasquez noted at a Washington, D.C., briefing, could be postdocs attracted into the classroom partially by a desire to pass on the excitement of science but also by new programs that could provide incentives such as higher pay and opportunities for continued participation in research.

Featuring high among Pécresse's objectives for next year are improvements in pay and career structure, and incentives for research agencies to step up coordination, privilege the best teams of researchers, foster innovation, and strengthen links between public and private sector research.

Due to varying factors, initial emissions caps in the European Union, the U.S. Northeast and California all ended up comfortably above actual emissions, so businesses have not had to pay high prices or face significant incentives to curb their emissions.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

What if, he asked, you could design a financial incentive for good management practices, with conservation - minded tourists paying higher prices for local lobsters in exchange for harvesting practices that would ensure the fishery's sustainability?

The film shrugs off fiscal irresponsibility and living beyond one's means (Bobby was earning $ 120,000 plus around $ 40,000 of incentives a year at GTX), passing the buck to the more appealing targets of high - paid higher - ups and those deciding who gets canned.

In this initial study, one topic that generated two high - ranking words was «paying students to do well in school» (incentive, enable)-- a topic directly related to adolescence.

In the Fall 2008 issue of Education Next, economist C. Kirabo Jackson reported that the Advanced Placement Incentive Program, which pays both high school students and their teachers for receiving passing scores on AP exams, boosted AP participation rates in participating schools (no big surprise!)

Importantly, these results are from a highly competitive institution where student grades directly influence employment opportunities at graduation — in other words, a school where the incentives to pay attention in class are especially high.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

«Teachers probably are not drawn to the profession for financial incentives,» says Stein, whose faculty receives additional pay because they work in his high - needs school.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

In contrast, the study found that the base - pay incentives did not clearly increase the retention rates of highly effective teachers who were already retained at much higher rates than low - performing teachers.

The idea of financial incentives is based on logic that economists find eminently sensible — workers work harder when money is at stake, so giving teachers higher pay for higher test scores should cause test scores to go up.

It makes more sense to devise incentives, including increased pay, to attract teachers with a track record of effectiveness, to high - need schools and classrooms.

If combined with a real growth model — holding schools accountable for making sure that all students make progress over the course of the school year — states can finally create incentives for schools to pay attention to their high achievers too.

For example, Maine recommends that districts adopt «longevity pay incentives» and create teacher leader programs in high - poverty schools.54 The plan also states that the Maine Department of Education will work with teacher preparation programs to assess the type and level of preparation afforded to aspiring teachers wishing to teach in high - poverty schools, isolated schools, and high - risk school settings with the goal of offering more supports, including housing, loan forgiveness, and housing for teachers in these types of schools.55

It's called the Teacher Incentive Fund, or TIF, and it's a grant for high needs schools to determine the effect on performance based pay.

Indeed, increasing teacher pay and providing other financial incentives for teachers is crucial to keeping them in the classroom, especially those in high - poverty schools.

She said teachers» starting pay, # 21,000 per year, was not high for a graduate profession, so the expectation of increases was an incentive for recruitment.

A new contract with the teachers» union in 2012 included data - infused teacher evaluations, stricter oversight of lesson plans and attendance, and merit pay, «including incentives for high performers to stay in low - performing schools.»

We've heard great ideas about how to change this from educators across the city: pay raises for mentor teachers and teachers who assume administrative responsibilities while still in the classroom, incentives to teach in high - needs areas and low - performing schools and salary steps based on fair evaluations.

One would expect, for example, to see higher rates of absence where more paid leave is available and where there's less incentive to take leave frugally.

Oklahoma also supports differential pay for those teaching at high - need schools but leaves it up to the school district to determine the specifics: «Districts shall be encouraged to provide completed schedules to reflect district policies and circumstances, including... special incentives for teachers in districts with specific geographical attributes.»

If you have to pay more for something, you are more likely to care about its quality; when districts pay higher wages, they have more incentive to employ good teachers (and dispense with bad ones).

Boasberg said schools have no incentive to hire a lower - paid teacher over a higher - paid teacher because DPS charges their budgets an average rate based on all the teachers in the district.

The Learning Leaders initiative provides teachers and principals in Henrico County's highest - need schools with incentive pay tied directly to effective and engaging classroom instruction that leads to growth in student achievement.

He established and continues to support a program that pays cash incentives to high school students, teachers and principals to increase participation in Advanced Placement classes and, by extension, college - going rates.

The study speculated that the high pressures surrounding teaching and testing — before merit pay was even introduced — might explain why introducing the new incentives did not change outcomes very much.