MetaFilter posts tagged with salary and pay

How much does your governor make?

pineapple — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:43:18 -0800

Stateline.org has posted the results of a 2007 survey on the salaries of state governors, complete with neato bar graph. The Governator's paycheck was recently voted up, making CA's the highest at $206,500, yet the Hollywood millionaire gives his back. The governor of Maine makes less than his assistant. Jon Corzine of NJ only makes $1 a year (and pays his own medical bills too). Is it heartening to see the relatively moderate salaries alongside the number of executives giving back or refusing increases? Or is it a testimony to the notion that only the wealthy can afford to serve? Or something else altogether?

military pay raises

nofundy — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:51:22 -0800

"Hang in there, help is on the way."

The director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., recently asked the Defense Department to lower the 2004 pay raise from its expected 3.7 percent to 2 percent. Daniels also wants future raises tied to inflation, rather than basing boosts on what civilians doing comparable jobs in the private sector might make.

Many of our military families already qualify for welfare and food stamps. Pay raises are out of the question when there's NMD and tax cuts to the wealthy needing funding.

tamim — Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:43:01 -0800

Global women are planning a general strike on March 8, 2001, in protest of pay inequity.

owillis — Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:40:10 -0800

The gender gap : do women make less wages due to discrimination, or is it their own choice? Or a combination?