Sentences with phrase «years of paid work»

Our yachting cadets can easily graduate debt - free because of what they earn during what amounts to some two years of paid work placements, plus food and accommodation is included in the cost of training.

Not exact matches

After working with the company for a year, Accenture will then match contributions up to 6 percent of an employee's pay.

In a meeting with his boss, Maynard, who will graduate from St. Mary's University this spring, learned that the company where he had been working part - time for nearly a year wanted to help him pay off his student loan — if he had no objections, of course.

So while some of the elderly self - employed will be motivated by paying their bills, others may have decided to spend the years they have left working for themselves rather than for others.

Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.

Also driving the trend is a collective cultural disgust with «obscene comp programs — the Monopoly money, the pay schemes that screw the little investor» — that have been proffered in recent years, says Charles A. (Chuck) Coonradt, author of The Game of Work and CEO of a consulting company by the same name in Park City, Utah.

Much of the rent and the consultants» work were paid for in DenOptix stock, meaning that the company spent only $ 45,000 of its precious cash during its first year of business.

Today is this year's Equal Pay Day, which represents the amount of extra time the average woman would have to work full time — 100 days — to make the same amount of money the average man made in the previous calendar year.

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.

If the 8,000 Canadians who received stock options as part of incomes over $ 250,000 paid taxes on this money at the same rate as the rest of their income — treating executive compensation the same way you treat the income of any other working stiff — it would have raised $ 337 million for federal coffers in 2009, a down year for options.

This is about the producer who works tirelessly to innovate and create, just like the innovators and creators at Apple are pioneering in their field... but will not get paid for a quarter of a year's worth of plays on his or her songs.

A 60 - year - old immigrant from the Philippines, she's worked at the same Seattle hotel for most of her time in the U.S. because the pay and health benefits beat the alternatives.

Claims for Social Security Disability Insurance — which pays out $ 143 billion each year to more than 11 million Americans unable to work because of a serious illness or impairment — have been ticking upward.

Given the average professional service business runs on profit margins of around 10 percent, having clients not pay you for 100 days means you're eating up every cent of profit for a year worth of hard work to cover their bad behavior.

Last year, Adobe announced that all of its male and female employees in the U.S. are now receiving equal pay for equal work.

InVivo paid for a year of Pritchard's graduate fellowship and funds his research in Langer's lab; in exchange, Pritchard brings to InVivo insights gleaned from some of the smartest scientists working in biomaterials anywhere.

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

These include: itinerary details; the name of the person or organization paying for the trip; the names of every country the applicant has visited in the past 10 years (99 for me); the applicant's current and two previous places of work; every educational institution the applicant has attended; all the professional, civil, and charity organizations of which the applicant is a member or with which he has «cooperated»; the names of all the applicant's relatives in Russia; the details of any training in firearms, explosives, nuclear weapons, and «biological and chemical substances» (which arguably would include everything from acidophilus yogurt to Drano); and details of the applicant's military service, including rank and occupation.

There is considerable research linking employee ownership to substantially improved corporateperformance, provided that companies make financially significant contributions to the ESOP (at least 5 % of pay per year), share corporate performance information, and get employees involved in decisions at the work level.

They make an unlikely duo — Donahoe, 53, was an econ major at Dartmouth, got an MBA at Stanford, and worked at Bain & Co. for nearly 20 years; Chesky, 32, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and started Airbnb to help pay his rent.

«This is key, because if you're young it means you have 30 - 35 years left of working life, so you are going to be working for a few decades, and that means paying taxes for a few decades,» Vargas - Silva said.

While millions are still out of work, U.S. CEOs received a 28 % pay raise this past year.

According to a survey of 250 information technology professionals working in small and medium - sized businesses (SMBs) conducted by Bitdefender and Spiceworks, one in five SMBs was infected with ransomware within the past year; of those, 38 % paid the ransom (an average of $ 2,423).

People pay into this while working and, in the event that they find themselves unemployed, get a good chunk of their former salary — up to a whopping 90 % for the lowest - end jobs — paid out to them for a period of up to two years.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month that his government will introduce legislation this year to ensure equal pay for work of equal value in federal jobs.

The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations said a wider breadth of employment options year - round, including part - time jobs, would allow students who study or have other commitments during the summer to find paid work placements in their field.

We lose incredible talent in our workforce every year as millions of Americans are faced with the absurd choice of going to work sick or staying home and losing their pay, or perhaps even their jobs.

The following year he offered a fair day's work for a fair day's pay, doubling wages to $ 5 per day to enable his workers to enjoy an adequate standard of living and be able to purchase the cars they produced.

However, a BIA / Kelsey representative told the paper that more businesses are shifting from using free online applications to paid services in the year ahead because of the amount of work required to monitor online reviews and comments.

Salesforce tops this year's list, thanks to its efforts to create a Great Place to Work For All, its commitment to philanthropy (employees get paid 56 hours per year to volunteer, for example), and for creating a globally - cohesive culture (in addition to this list, it also ranks on each of our national best workplaces lists in Australia, India, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the U.K.)

However, Halligan's compensation ($ 18,000 / year toward conference attendance, $ 2,500 / year FSA, full health insurance with paid premiums, 30 days of PTO, to name a few) sounds more like magical thinking than solutions that could actually work in start - ups.

«By 11:41 a.m. today, just as most Canadians are getting ready for their lunch break on the first official work day of the year, the average of the 100 highest paid CEOs will have already pocketed what it takes the average Canadian an entire year, working full - time to earn,» says Mackenzie.

Rent a suite in the basement to pay the mortgage, keep working up the ladder every 10 years as your equity increases, don't worry too much about paying the mortgage off, and never be out of the market.

So now it's 2015, I'm 4 months from graduating college, I'm making 70k as a project manager (been working here for 2 months), putting 10 % of my income into my 401k (currently valued at 10k, & 50 % is matched by my employer, i'm at their max for matching), living at home with my parents, I have 3k in CD's, $ 26k in savings, and have no debt whatsoever (paying $ 8k per year for school in cash, so no student loans).

Bill Curry reports in today's Globe that, at last year's economic policy retreat, business leaders urged Finance Minister Flaherty to reduce the pay of «overpriced» Canadian workers, including through anti union right to work legislation.

As an economics student, she planned to work for an investment bank and have her many years of studying pay off with a prestigious job.

The way it works is that, each year, the insurer deduct all expenses, such as death benefits paid and the costs of running the business, from the money they've made (premiums collected, investments, and any other sources of income) and pays out any net profit as a dividend.

A woman I work with borrowed against her 401k to buy a ski - in, ski - out condo for around $ 150k during the recession, which she now rents out on a daily basis for a crazy high return, as in her gross rents paid for the entire purchase price after 2 years of ownership, and she's now paid back her 401k loan.

Starbucks offers Military Service Pay to eligible partners (employees) with up to 80 hours of pay each year when National Guard or Reserve service obligations take them away from their work with the compaPay to eligible partners (employees) with up to 80 hours of pay each year when National Guard or Reserve service obligations take them away from their work with the compapay each year when National Guard or Reserve service obligations take them away from their work with the company.

In actuality, while the skill set necessary to make intelligent decisions can take years to acquire, the core matter is straightforward: Buy ownership of good businesses (stocks) or loan money to good credits (bonds), paying a price sufficient to reasonably assure you of a satisfactory return even if things don't work out particularly well (a margin of safety), and then give yourself a long enough stretch of time (at an absolute minimum, five years) to ride out the volatility.

So if you hired someone or subcontracted some work to someone sometime during the current tax year, when you were claiming their wages or fees as an expense (on Form T2125 of the T1 income tax return if your business is a sole proprietorship or a partnership), you would deduct the GST / HST if you had already claimed it as GST / HST paid out when you filed your GST / HST return for the appropriate period.

Almost a year after agreeing to pay $ 3 billion for Beats, the maker of hip headphones and a streaming music service, Apple is working with Beats engineers and executives to introduce its own subscription streaming service.

The good work done over the last couple of years in the field of algorithmic tactical asset allocation strategies may start to pay off during the next economic regime shift.

I started the company 16 years ago and am the face and heart of the organization, I sell most of the work and make sure all the agreements get signed and everyone gets paid.

The rule, which does not need additional approval, requires that workers in assignments related to many federal contracts receive one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours they work, for up to 56 hours of leave a year.

If they were to live on the average worker's pay, Canada's CEOs could stop working at around 11 a.m. on Jan. 2 and take the rest of the year off.

PSI Myanmar will pay Living Goods over three years for its work, which Living Goods expects to cover most of its costs for the project.53

A feminist, Renock had always thought of herself as someone who wouldn't stand for that kind of behavior — but there was half a million dollars at stake, and she and her co-founders, who hadn't paid themselves a salary in more than a year, were bartending and working at coffee shops to make ends meet.

It's not hard to imagine that after a few years of owning your home, crushing it at work, and paying off other outstanding debts, that your credit could shoot for the sky.

Now in my third year of investing, it has certainly worked and paid off handsomely judging by the year of year growth of my received dividends.