Sentences with phrase «increased by that percentage»

But if you simply can't afford to save an additional 2 % or 3 % of salary immediately, you can do so gradually by increasing it by a percentage point every year or so or by saving half of any pay raises you receive.

Foreign Transaction Fee * If you effect a transaction on your HSBC Bank Consumer Checking or Savings account at an EFT facility with your Debit Mastercard ® card or ATM card outside the United States, the transaction amount is further increased by a percentage established from time to time by us (currently 3 %).

If other obligations (student loans, living expenses, whatever) prevent you from putting away that much right now, start with a smaller figure and increase it by a percentage point or more each year.

The increase in the overall distance driven is not surprising; the population increased by that percentage during that time.

Ground rents which automatically double every 10 years may now have fallen out of favour but there remains another weapon in the developer's armoury which has not: ground rents which increase by the percentage increase in the retail price index (RPI) over the preceding 10 - year period.

If the sum assured increases by a percentage, the increase could be at a simple rate or at a compounded rate though a simple rate is usually the norm.

Once this has been added then is the time to increase it by the percentage of profit that you would like to earn.

Not exact matches

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

For example, the bank found a 1 % increase in «comfortable banking» metrics — a.k.a. the percentage of customers who said the teller made them feel appreciated — led to a 1.7 % increase in overall customer satisfaction, which increased branch profitability by 0.4 %.

By increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third WaBy increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third Waby an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third Way.

It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

And this concerted, targeted effort led by CEO Klaus Kleinfeld resulted in a 3.2 percentage point bump in executives and a 2.7 percentage point increase in women in professional and plant manager roles.

The increases were only made easier by the federal government's two - percentage - point reduction of the GST.

The purchase worth as much as 26.5 billion rupees could increase Singtel's stake in Bharti Telecom by up to 1.7 percentage points to 48.9 percent and its holding in Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest mobile carrier, by up to 0.9 percentage points to 39.5 percent.

She added that by Congressional Budget Office estimates, cited by Harvard professor and former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, a 0.2 percentage point increase in GDP would eliminate any long - term budget gap.

According to studies by the Hay Group and Towers Watson, engaged employees are 43 % more productive, and companies with the highest percentage of engaged employees, on average, increase operating margins 3.64 % and net profit margins by 2.06 %.

The percentage of women coached by women has declined to an all - time low, even while Title IX, which prohibits sex - based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal dollars, has dramatically increased participation numbers for female athletes.

Under this scenario, increasing the rate by one percentage point would increase revenues by one per cent of the original tax base.

By increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, Kessler sayBy increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, Kessler sayby an additional $ 300 billion, Kessler says.

According to recent research done by TechCrunch, the percentage of venture - backed companies that are founded by women have not increased since 2012.

In the past year, Google has increased its percentages of female employees, female leaders, black employees and Hispanics by a mere 1 %, it says.

But it also turns out that we phone users are a price - sensitive bunch and reduce our phone usage by more than 1 percent for each percentage point increase in our bills.

That information sharing saves money for U.S. Energy's clients, increases the company's total revenues (some of which come as a percentage of any savings the company secures for the client), and, by extension, boosts the size of the profit - sharing bonus.

«By way of comparison, the typical profitable firm in our sample had a net profit margin of 6.4 percent, so a 1 percentage point increase represents a 15 percent boost to profitability.»

You can try to boost your score by reducing the balance on your business credit cards or requesting a credit - line increase to lower the percentage of your available credit in use.

Globally, the percentage of candidates considering only business master's degrees has increased from 15 % in 2009 to 23 % in 2016, according to a 2017 report by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), the organization that administers the GMAT, the business school entrance exam.

«If hand hygiene compliance rates increased by 8.7 percentage points across the board during a typical work shift, this could potentially eliminate as many as 1.2 million infections per year, save up to $ 25 billion, and prevent up to 70,000 unnecessary deaths in the United States,» reports Knowledge@Wharton.

The size of your Social Security check increases by a certain percentage for each month you delay taking benefits beyond your full retirement.

When Fortune compared companies» latest 2014 employee data to their numbers from 2013, we found that Facebook, Microsoft and H - P all increased their percentage of women by less than 1 %.

As for its year - over-year progress, Pinterest reported that it increased its percentage of female employees by 2 percentage points (40 % to 42 %).

Surprisingly, Detroit, which has been the poster child for the dilapidated and abandoned properties left behind by the foreclosure crisis, leads the country in increased flipping activity with a 4.8 percentage points jump between 2015 and 2016.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

Other markets where flipping activity has increased by two and three percentage points include Chicago, Knoxville, Tenn., Memphis, Tenn., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla..

A 1 percentage point reduction in tax rates increases investment by 4.7 percent of installed capital, increases payouts by 0.3 percent of sales, and decreases debt by 5.3 percent of total assets.

• Smartphone market penetration increases to 63 percentage points in 2013, up by 9 percentage points from 2012.

A widely watched gauge by the CME Group futures exchange put the odds of a 0.25 percentage point increase in September at 24 % after the speech.

On the cost side, the same increase in the policy rate might cut output by up to 1 per cent and push inflation down by 0.5 percentage point relative to what it would have been otherwise.

The increase in hiring by small businesses is an encouraging sign for the economy amid estimates that the 16 - day government shutdown could have sliced off as much as 0.6 percentage point from fourth quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

RBC's aggregate measure for housing affordability in Canada rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.

In addition, 22 percent anticipate an increase of between 5 and 10 percentage points, and one in 10 investors plan to raise allocations by 10 percentage points or more.

The calculation decreases or increases benefits by a fixed percentage for every month you claim early or late, so people with a lower full retirement age will get more in benefits as a percentage of their full retirement benefit if they claim earlier or later than someone with a higher full retirement age.

Activision Blizzard's revenue and profit rose by double - digit percentages thanks to increased in - game spending in key titles such as «Call of Duty: World War II» and «Candy Crush Saga.»

Whenever the Fed decides to act, the initial rate increase will be small — a quarter of a percentage point — but it looms large psychologically because it will be the first increase in short - term rates by the Fed since June 2006.

Mintz writes, â $ œthe last 1.5 percentage point reduction in corporate tax rate would increase Canadaâ $ ™ s capital stock by about $ 30 billion and employment by about 100,000 jobsâ $ (page 3).

«we estimate the last 1.5 percentage point reduction in corporate tax rate would increase Canadaâ $ ™ s capital stock by about $ 30 billion and employment by about 100,000 jobs in the long run (4).

Make it your mission to always contribute X amount every month and consistently increase the savings amount by a percentage or several until it hurts.

That's why experts typically advise folks who are closer to retirement to decrease their exposure to equity risk by reducing the percentage of their investments in stocks and increasing the percentage in bonds.

Fort Lauderdale - based Universal Property & Casualty Co., the state's largest insurer, saw the largest increase both by overall numbers and percentage — from 1,095 suits in January through March 2017 to 2,829 during the same period this year — a 158.4 percent jump.