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I was given a pay rise because they wanted him as well, you see.

In other words, executive pay rose an average of 6.8 percent a year.

Will they actually say, hold on, this pay rise is too much.

I see it as a couple of grand pay rise.

We were just going to ask him about this proposed pay rise that's all.

So I'll be expecting a big pay rise at the end of it.

However if it was seen of a higher quality, he could receive a pay rise.

He is reported to have earned a huge pay rise for the move.

But the income taxes they paid rose by more than 50 percent.

But they'll all get their annual pay rise as usual.

The amount of any pay rise this year was a matter for local authorities, he said.

But he probably received a pay rise of less than 10 per cent in 1988-89.

Those who stay will enjoy a pay rise and new housing from 2012.

Despite the system it created, Congress has still found ways to vote some 200 times since 1967 on pay rises.

But that means low pay rises for workers in the public sector.

With her promotion had come a very useful pay rise.

When appointed to a new post, one of his first questions is whether he will get a pay rise.

Nurses are being urged to campaign for a pay rise.

This is after what will be 11 years of pay rises on a higher than average wage.

He said that colleagues were determined to fight for a pay rise.

I guess what he means is they'll be asking for bigger pay rises.

The pay rise was kept for other Federal workers.

And we had two years with no pay rise.

Asking the board for a pay rise, the request was denied.

It does not take account of future years' service or any pay rises between now and their retirement.

The President has asked for a 2 percent pay raise.

But then, the bill at hand was a pay raise.

They said no to a 4.1 percent pay raise for our service men and women.

What are you people waiting for - a pay raise?

Of course, they all want a pay raise, including the Republicans.

"It is time working people in our nation got a pay raise."

Faculty members say they have not seen a pay raise in years.

Soon after, however, soldiers were given a large pay raise.

"This is clearly a year when members of Congress should not be getting a pay raise," he said.

There is no money in the budget for pay raises.

"They played right into our hands with the pay raise," he said.

Among those provisions was a military pay raise of 2.4 percent.

State judges have gone more than eight years without a pay raise.

Who can give themselves a 23 percent pay raise anywhere in the world except Congress?

The issue of pay raises has been a controversial one.

And I have supported the largest pay raise in many a year.

One area where the Pentagon needs more money is for pay raises.

He declined to take a pay raise during tough economic times.

It would have also included pay raises for those officers.

A very short walk, she admitted, until that pay raise.

"These things are like the Congressional pay raise," he said.

Instead, they have had to make do with scant pay raises, if any.

He was also a key figure in the 2005 pay raise debacle.

Therefore, a pay raise is not justified at this time.

Another year without a pay raise, and he would wonder what the ninety million was doing.