Our rule of thumb is this: Spend at least 6,000 or 8,000 times what your lowest-paid employee receives.

These are the lowest-paid employees of the Board of Education.

He never drew a salary from the company that was more than three times that of his lowest-paid employee.

Lump-Sum Payments Union officials say the workers, many of them middle-aged women with much less clinical training than registered nurses or therapists, are among the lowest-paid employees in the health-care industry.

Most important, by linking the pay of those at the top with those at the bottom, we provide an incentive for executives to raise the salaries of their lowest-paid employees.

Many corporations are waking up to the fact that their lowest-paid employees are the people who create, or fail to create, the emotional connections that lead to brand loyalty.

A casual and clubby management style invited stealing from a union treasury built on dues from some of the city's hardest-working and lowest-paid employees.

That's why she's focusing on corporations next, persuading them to let even their lowest-paid employees take time out from work for exercise.

In any event, I don't understand why some boards think C.E.O.'s are worth 400 to 500 times more in salary than the lowest-paid employees.

And the lowest-paid new administrative employee, for example, is being paid $10,088 a year; those hired into the same classification before Jan. 1 are earning between $11,220 and $18,780.