And overhead costs like management salaries would not change.

The Munich stations are expected to scale back high management salaries, the official said.

Top management salaries should be pegged to the com-pany average.

The company also said it would cut management salaries by up to 40 percent.

It might also lift the pay caps on management salaries.

Federal labor law does not allow for bargaining about management salaries, but both sides have not felt constrained by the law in the past.

But they say that the authority's total number of employees has remained at 1,681 since 1991 and that management salaries have been frozen since 1990.

He said he had cut management salaries, including his own, by 20 percent and reduced executive positions to 9 from 13.

He said any number of reasons could explain why women's management salaries might be less than those of men.

In addition, stockholders will get a much clearer picture of what management salaries will be.