Within the government, higher-paid workers are more protected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Americans Are Getting Richer] Reference

It's designed to replace higher-paid workers with lower-paid workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2008] Reference

Workers say this is just an effort to force out older, higher-paid workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2006] Reference

It kills higher-paid supermarket jobs and puts small retailers out of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2004] Reference

KEILAR: Yes, we'll have to see how many of those higher-paid workers do bite on that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2008] Reference

There is no way that the higher-paid British can compete with lower paid overseas workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Could local be the new British?] Reference

Federal "nondiscrimination" rules limit how much some higher-paid workers can put away pretax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rothify Your 401(k)] Reference

Can there be so many more male nurses in the higher-paid nursing specialties tipping the scales?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonder Bread for the New Breadwinners: Steps Toward the Ideal « AAUW Dialog] Reference

Many of them have high-technology jobs once held by higher-paid Americans, who are now unemployed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2003] Reference

And the people most likely to leave a job to start a business are going to be the higher-paid ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: It's in the P-I: Fake News! (I)] Reference

Circuit City has remodeled stores, dismissed higher-paid sales staff, and revamped store operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circuit City Loses] Reference

Managers can minimize the number of employees they fire by dismissing higher-paid traders and bankers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citi to Cut More Jobs, Raise Rates on Its Plastic] Reference

"More of the higher-paid part-time workers cut back on their hours, and many of their jobs disappeared.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Part-time workers' income plummets] Reference

"More of the higher-paid, part-time workers cut back on their hours, and many of their jobs disappeared.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Income plummets for part-time workers in Washington area] Reference

And do you dismiss both parties, or strictly the party (like Phillips and Letterman) who are higher-paid?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Be careful where you sleep « Dating Jesus] Reference

But that problem could be solved without helping the higher-paid avoid even more taxes than they do today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sizing Up The Savings Plans] Reference

O. J.'s defense team may be higher-paid and better-dressed, but the prosecution is by no means outclassed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice Of The Victims] Reference

Those higher-paid workers appear to be seeking protection at a time of widespread belt-tightening, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Faces Appear at Bargaining Table] Reference

The growth of freelance websites to higher-paid, white-collar occupations is making it easier to moonlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New White-Collar Juggle] Reference

• Edmonton Oilers: They had the room to bring in higher-paid Chris Pronger and Michael Peca through trades.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

A Cancer Diagnosis In 2006 Congress limited the practice, saying firms could insure only higher-paid employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Million-Dollar Check, Widow Got None] Reference

Do you think there's a difference in attitude between the rookies and the higher-paid, more high-profile players?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2002] Reference

An amended scale of cost of living allowances grossly favoured the higher-paid and predominantly white wage earners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 25] Reference

Upper management at the U-T may have told the sports department: You have to get rid of one of your higher-paid guys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will I Lose My Sight if I Watch, or Just My Lunch?] Reference

Which is to say, how does the system ensure these high-paid overseers actually police their even higher-paid patrons?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goldman Board Game] Reference

If money is allocated to this end, however, it must not be diverted to wage increases for higher-paid civil servants.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Moreover, disproportionate cuts in the benefits for higher-paid workers would endanger public support for the program.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future of Social Security: An Exchange] Reference

Ms. Cramer questions the economics of transferring work from the school's lowest-paid workers to higher-paid employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo to All Staff: Dump Your Trash] Reference

He announced a management shakeup earlier this week which will lead to a "reduction in the number of higher-paid staff".    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel 4 chair defends executive pay] Reference

This means we are not losing jobs just for our unskilled labor force, but for our higher-paid, more-educated workforce as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Edwards: It's Time to Make R&D Tax Credit Permanent, Assure U.S. Remains World's Top Innovator] Reference

The more employees that participate in the 401k plan, the greater the amount of earnings higher-paid employees get to sock away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entrepreneurs Should Like The New Pension Law] Reference

John Saunders, vice president for human resources, notes that UPS generally has higher-paid, more-experienced employees than rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Management Leaders Turn] Reference

These jobs are generally well paid, career-track jobs that range from low-skill entry-level positions to high-skill higher-paid jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himes’ Earth Day Op-Ed | spazeboy] Reference

Washington regulation was intended to ensure that pension funding was sound and that benefits were not unfairly skewed toward the higher-paid employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Few Companies Have Defined-Benefit Plans] Reference

Progressives still persue policies that hurt the employment prospects of lower-paid workers to keep the wages of favored higher-paid workers higher still.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting Article on Labor Legislation in the Progressive Era:] Reference

The higher-paid people are, the better the odds are that they have highly satisfying jobs performed in cushy conditions - the exact opposite of what Stossel is suggesting here.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Stossel on the Wage Gap] Reference

Luke Bosdet, a spokesman for the AA, said: "The higher-paid can probably absorb these costs, but for drivers on a lower income the freedom of the road is beginning to disappear.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VAT rise will add to drivers' woes] Reference

In our experience, those Guild members who work at non-Guild shops are typically more experienced than their non-member fellow workers, and thus tend to be among the higher-paid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filled Out Your Wage Survey Yet?] Reference

I'm also impressed that GateHouse — like my friends at the Boston Phoenix — is cutting higher-paid employees by a larger percentage than those at the bottom of the pay scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference