Sure, they earned bonuses, but generally they could count on respectable salaries in good years and bad.

Two jobs at one respectable salary: $162,800.

Placement in the ballet program can lead to respectable salaries, government subsidies, the opportunity to travel internationally and recognition as a Cuban cultural asset.

We keep demanding outrageous things like preservation of the environment, equal access to education, full employment, a respectable salary and health care for all.

While investment capital made many of them millionaires on paper, few have been able to draw more than respectable salaries from those proceeds.

Many workers acknowledge that the $573 they receive each week is a respectable salary, especially for workers in their early 20's who have a high school education.

He even makes a case for lower wages: "It already isn't profitable to pay respectable salaries, and so any pressure to raise them becomes one more reason to avoid Africa altogether."

Though he earns a respectable salary - about 1,000 yuan a month, or $120 - Duo is burdened by a sense of failure.

In the United States, the laureate serves for one year at a time, gets an office with a stunning view of the Capitol and earns a respectable salary of $35,000.

Fourth, the World Health Organization, with generous American assistance, should augment the meager pay doctors and health care workers receive in the developing nations so they have a respectable salary.