He quit his job as director of the business-to-business segment at e-commerce software maker Open Market to launch PurchasingCenter, warning his wife to expect lean months with no salary.

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The annual salary a Chinese engineer can expect to make in the coastal cities.

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With the best of these schemes, someone with 40 years' service could expect a pension of two-thirds of their final salary.

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How else does one expect these people to stay on for a pittance in salary while restructuring in bankruptcy where they would be no performance pay.

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And don't expect parity in the NFL anytime soon unless the league changes its salary cap and revenue sharing rules.

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Someone who spends their entire working life in the public sector could expect to retire on a pension of two-thirds their final salary.

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An extra year at school in South Africa brings a salary increase of 11-12%, whereas workers in developed countries can expect to make only 5-7% more.

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The money at stake for players in terms of salary, and teams in terms of revenues from pennant chases, is just too great to expect players to risk injury to perform in an exhibition game, regardless of whether home-field advantage in the World Series is on the line.

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