Sentences with phrase «last year is paying»

The report comes from the results of a survey of 1,000 Canadians by the Toronto - based Solutions Research Group (SRG), which reveal that RIM's decision to slash the price of its tablet by hundreds of dollars late last year is paying dividends.

Walmart's (wmt) decision to offer higher wages last year is paying off, according to the retailer's finance chief.

At those levels, CEOs last year were paid 303 times what workers in their industries earned, compared with a ratio of 59 times in 1989, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington - based nonprofit.

This time last year we were paying less than $ 1.80 per gallon on average for gasoline.

Not exact matches

In last year's presentation, we were really searching for what the right way... how do we pay for this thing?

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

Six out of 10 respondents who used a credit card to buy presents last year aren't sure how much they paid in total interest on their purchases.

Budget cuts not possible - Buswell The state government's economic policy was in tatters last night after Treasurer Troy Buswell conceded he would not achieve the controversial 3 per cent cuts expected to pay for election promises in this year's budget.

Competitors Delta Air Lines and United Airlines have also said that they are paying significantly more for fuel this year than last.

One of the reasons these extremely good times can't last is that most households simply aren't being paid enough to go on driving economic growth as they have in recent years.

One of my constant points on this blog for the last several years has been that households» refinancing of their mortgage debt at lower and lower rates has put more money in their pockets for spending and for paying down debt.

We have always believed that the Employment Tribunal's decision from last year October was entirely correct in saying that our GMB member clients were entitled to workers» right such as the minimum wage and holiday pay,» said Nigel Mackay, employment solicitor at Leigh Day, the firm that represented the union members.

The money paid back to Americans in tax refunds so far this year is now roughly equal to cumulative outlays at this time in the past few years, and just slightly below last year's year - to - date total, alleviating any worrying economic signals coming from the data.

The rude awakening came last year, when the techies were blindsided by SOPA and PIPA, two Congressional bills that would have made Internet companies pay steep penalties for illegal downloads of music and video content on their sites.

Amazon is reportedly paying less than that, which means the acquisition price is significantly lower than the company's $ 1 billion valuation when it raised funding last year.

In all, the pay of the CEOs of the nation's six largest banks — which also includes Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley (ms), and Wells Fargo (wfc)-- rose to $ 123 million last year, with an average of $ 20.5 million for each exec.

Each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determines how well the system is working by surveying Americans and asking a simple but powerful question: Did you have problems paying medical bills in the last 12 months?

And Dimon's pay rose last year, up a hefty 35 % to $ 27 million, despite the fact that the company's shares were up only 6 %.

Last year's top overall pick, Andrew Wiggins (who was drafted by Cleveland and then traded to Minnesota), signed a rookie contract that paid him $ 5.5 million in its first year.

This took three years of focused budgeting and willpower, but I'm happy to say that I completely wiped out my student loans, credit card debt and all but the last $ 1,500 of my car loan — which is on track to be paid off in September.

Gorman's pay dropped by less than 7 % last year, which was the biggest pay drop among the top bank CEOs.

What's more, one of the women in the Equilar 100, Oracle's (orcl) Safra Catz, tied with her co-CEO, Mark Hurd, for the title of highest paid chief executive, raking in $ 53.2 last year, significantly boosting the women's average.

«If I had to speculate, [the layoffs occurred] because Fancy isn't making enough money to support the business and pay salaries, and the investment money from last year (about $ 60 million) is pretty much all gone,» one person says.

When Ma Zhiyuan's phone rang last year, and a real estate agent told him she had a client ready to pay cash for his Beijing apartment, he was stunned.

He is the world's highest - paid action sports athlete, according to Forbes, with estimated earnings of $ 12 million last year.

About 100,000 fewer Canadian households subscribed to a cable TV or satellite plan last year, though 11.92 million were still paying for packages.

In September, documents revealed Tidal had lost $ 28 million last year and was accused of not paying its bills.

«While the most recent dividend was paid in May of last year, we believe there is potential for the company to accelerate this timeline given our estimate of a 14 % FCF [free cash flow] benefit from tax reform and the company's strong underlying cash flow,» he wrote.

Gerald Schwartz, who took home an $ 85 - million pay package last year, isn't a leader in the private equity world just because he can swing a good deal.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

fuboTV has been relatively quiet about its subscriber numbers since bragging about its growth rate last year, when it surpassed 71,000 paying U.S. customers.

It is unclear when Uber began using Wickr, but the company said that in October of last year it began paying for a business version that gave it the ability to preserve messages for as long as a year instead of a maximum of six days.

Microsoft (msft) dropped $ 26.2 billion to buy LinkedIn last year, so there's pressure to make that investment pay off.

The cap was introduced by former prime minister David Cameron in 2010 and has resulted in public sector pay being frozen at one percent rises for the last seven years.

This is a great source of offline advertising because you pay for the cost up front and the value lasts for years.

The median pay package at Facebook was more than $ 240,000 last year, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg getting more than $ 8.8 million, the company revealed in its annual proxy.

Beckham is currently entering the last year of his rookie contract, which is set to pay him $ 8.5 million this season, a low number considering his considerable talents.

Since Chen came aboard late last year, he's focused the company on its traditional customer base of business users and outsourced other functions so the company can pay less attention to the consumer market.

The most recent regulatory action taken in the hopes of reigning in unjustified CEO pay was a rule implemented by the SEC last year, which requires companies to publish the ratio of CEO pay to the median salary of other workers at the firm.

For example, if you don't want them to work for a competitor for a year, you need to be willing to pay them a severance that lasts that same period (we'll talk more about severance in a minute).

According to Spotify's official figures, calculated at the end of last year, it has 159 million users, 71 million of whom are paying subscribers.

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told his colleagues last year that he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin «pays» Rohrabacher, whose contact with and sympathy for pro-Russian entities has long been viewed with suspicion.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

By the time Priszm stopped distributions last year, its ability to pay down debt was already in doubt.

It also lists all your creditors with current balances, those with paid - off balances from the last 7 - 10 years, and those accounts that are in arrears.

Souki was the highest paid CEO in the U.S. last year, according to a New York Times / Equilar survey published earlier this year.

A survey conducted last year found that 23 percent of PR interns weren't paid at all, and only 28 percent were paid at or above minimum wage.

Last year the company only made $ 30,000 in profits, but he says that what really matters is who benefits from the surplus once the bills are paid.

«Employees who ask their boss directly for a bonus are twice as likely to be successful in that request than last year, so making proactive, bold moves in 2017 could pay off, but one always needs to approach these conversations with care,» said Accounting Principals president, David Alexander.

Last year, big - company CEOs were paid an average of 343 times what their workers made.