Sentences with phrase «raise every year for»

John Curran, 41, of Tinley Park has resigned as director of the Alsip Park District to join Tinley Park for an annual salary of $ 67,000, plus an automatic 4 percent raise each year for the duration of his three - year contract.

After several years of contentious bargaining, Erie County has settled a contract with the its blue - collar union, offering 2 percent raises each year for the next four years to the 1,500 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1095.

You literally get a raise each year for doing nothing.

The dividend is as secure as it can be, having been raised every year for 54 straight years.

This is just the kind of opportunity a smart investor could hope for to get into a company that has proved its mettle by paying a dividend for more than 100 years and raising it every year for 59 consecutive years.

Cruelty, I knew that the 10 billion animals we raise each year for meat, are raised in factory farm conditions that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider for our own cats, dogs and other pets.

Not exact matches

The U.S. is about to raise interest rates for the first time in eight years.

For years I thought the reason hands were raised was simply an economic one.

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

That likely reassured investors who watched Walmart sacrifice profits for a couple of years as it gave workers raises and invested heavily in e-commerce to better compete online and in stores.

April 24 (Reuters)- United Technologies Corp reported quarterly results that topped analysts» estimates on Tuesday and raised its full - year forecasts, citing higher demand for spare parts and services from airlines dealing with booming passenger travel.

Earlier, Freeport reduced its copper production forecast for this year to 3.8 billion pounds from 3.9 billion and raised its copper cash cost forecast to $ 1.01 a pound from a previous 97 cents.

This new form of equity crowdfunding — which is the result of the new Title III of the JOBS Act — allows companies to raise up to $ 1,000,000 each year, from investors for their businesses, using crowdfunding platforms.

«Spotify is not raising capital, and our shareholders and employees have been free to buy and sell our stock for years,» CEO Daniel Ek wrote in a blog post Monday.

Merck edged 1.1 percent higher after it reported a profit that beat estimates and the company raised earnings forecast for the year.

The higher margins prompted Bunge to raise its full - year earnings outlook for its agribusiness unit, which includes soybean crushing, to a range of $ 800 million to $ 1 billion from $ 550 million to...

Rick Santorum, for instance, suggested raising workers» hourly pay just 50 cents over the next three years.

The Fed maintained its forecast for two more rate hikes this year, following speculation on whether budding inflation would push it toward raising its outlook to three more increases.

Merck raised its full - year forecast for adjusted earnings to between $ 4.16 and $ 4.28 per share from between $ 4.08 and $ 4.23 per share estimated previously.

«The new entrants into that over the last several years have helped to raise a lot of the excitement and innovation, and I think that's great for the space program,» Hewson said.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

For the past five years, venture capital firms have pumped 25 percent to 100 percent more than they've raised into a diverse array of investments, including clean energy technology, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

However, Arconic raised its revenue forecast to $ 13.7 billion to $ 14.0 billion for the year, from its previous estimate of $ 13.4 billion to $ 13.7 billion.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

For all we hear about 20 - year - olds dropping out of Stanford to raise trunk loads of venture money, most entrepreneurs need industry knowledge and connections to start a company.

Your upside is always capped: For the vast majority of employees, annual raises come in the 3 to 4 percent per year variety.

But even at that level the shares offer a substantial yield (2.6 %), and the dividend has been raised for 12 years running.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Garmin reported a higher - than - expected profit for the eighth straight quarter, selling more of its GPS - based outdoor activity gadgets such as underwater watches, leading it to raise its full - year revenue forecast.

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

This year, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to lead fundraising with President Macky Sall of Senegal to raise $ 1.3 billion for the Global Partnership for Education, following emails, calls and tweets from members of Global Citizen.

In America, the only developed country that's actually raised rates recently, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is now saying that market forces could keep rates low for years.

Things are going so well that it also raised its profit outlook for the rest of the year.

Equally, when a company that is burning $ 175,000 / month tells me they're raising $ 10 - 15 million it sets off alarm bells because even if I assume you'll double your burn rate it still implies 2.5 - 3.5 years of cash runway, which is too much for a startup.

Some market participants have said they believe it will raise rates once a quarter instead, making it four for the year.

HK] filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday that could raise $ 10 billion and become the largest listing by a Chinese technology firm in almost four years.

The firm raises more than 20 million chickens a year for McDonald's in the world's second largest economy.

The firm has been investing under - the - radar in a mix of venture and private equity deals since 2014, but had not raised a large fund of pooled capital for deals until this year.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

They already went through their period where they raised wages a lot in China for example, but seven years ago.

One week every year, the U.S. government shines a spotlight upon the entrepreneurial community to raise awareness about small business and to provide resources for aspiring business owners across the nation.

Volkswagen shares hit a 10 - month high after the company posted better - than - expected profits for the third quarter and raised its guidance for the year.

He had taken some steps to curb demand during his first year in office, such as raising the minimum downpayment for homes priced higher than $ 500,000.

Labour has said it will raise income taxes on people earning more than # 80,000 ($ 103,152) a year, promising no increases for the other 95 % of taxpayers.

Co-founders Devin Haman and Jeff Bozz (last we saw them, they were firing a pair of hard - partying friends named Holly and Molly) will be back for a new season on E! later this year... AmieStreet.com, a music - downloading start - up that raises the price of a song as it gains popularity, hit the jackpot when users found recordings on the site by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the woman linked with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

P&G backed its sales forecast for the year but raised its estimate for core earnings per share growth for fiscal 2018 to a range of 5 percent to 8 percent from a prior range of 5 percent to 7 percent.

Although the dream had to be put on hold for the next several years as Ganahl adjusted to life as a single mother raising their children, she never gave up.

Reiterating mid-term goals that include a 6 percent margin excluding Opel for 2021 - compared with 7.3 percent last year - Chief Financial Officer Jean - Baptiste de Chatillon said the targets will be reviewed early next year and could be raised.

Overall, 2014 has been a blockbuster year for IPOs, raising the most capital since 2000 during the dot com boom.