That's because better-paid workers are better employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne L. Thompson: Fox's John Stossel Is Wrong to Oppose the Minimum Wage] Reference

That s because better-paid workers are better employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne L. Thompson: Fox's John Stossel Is Wrong to Oppose the Minimum Wage] Reference

Overall, that's not bad -- though better-paid would be nice to add.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is a Librarian? Defining a profession] Reference

The better-paid half of biotech CEOs took home an average of £443,793.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo to Biotech CEOs: Keep Hands Off the Cash] Reference

The study found that companies tend to select peers with better-paid CEOs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picking Big 'Peers' to Set Pay] Reference

Another part of the answer is that a better-paid worker becomes a more productive worker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minimum Wage In Washington And Idaho] Reference

There are two primary explanations for why better-paid bureaucrats should be less corrupt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fight Against Corruption] Reference

Low overall participation often limits the amount that older, better-paid workers can save.    From Wordnik.com.  [Workers fight uphill battle on 401(k) retirement savings] Reference

Construction is a big employer and one of the better-paid sectors for men who lack a college degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Estate's Far Reach to Continue to Pinch] Reference

Coventry itself has the better-paid 'engine weaving'; the rural districts have the 'single hand trade'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference

His job was also considered one of the better-paid jobs in the county and many people were envious of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mao's last dancer]

Also you wrote “Another part of the answer is that a better-paid worker becomes a more productive worker.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minimum Wage In Washington And Idaho] Reference

It was the time of the industrial revolution and youngsters were leaving to find better-paid work in the towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

And rather than cost employers more money, a better-paid worker is a worker more likely to stay on the payroll.    From Wordnik.com.  [RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE: A NO-BRAINER ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATS] Reference

When entertainers are elected to high office, I become, by association, more relevant, and perhaps better-paid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cloprah '08! | EW.com] Reference

Bernstein in All the President's Men, were better-paid but still gritty reporters unafraid to challenge big power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Americans Hate the Media] Reference

Many of Greece's better-paid civil servants enjoy a preferential tax rate, which the government is proposing to end.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Tells Athens to Fix Its Budget as Strikes Begin] Reference

Never for one moment did we believe that Putin would retire from the fray as other, probably better-paid analysts did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

Half of Sweden's working women are in the public sector, for example, while more men work in better-paid private-sector jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth and Reality] Reference

An extra R4-billion for the criminal justice system over the next three years, which will mean more and better-paid police.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"In other words, the SA economy of 1998 collectively opted for the path of a smaller, more productive, better-paid workforce.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But we cannot expect the economy will automatically create better-paid positions to match the cohort acquiring higher education.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich and Everyone Else] Reference

A man I know, we'll call him Andy Lohen, has a job which is far superior to mine, and which I know for a fact is far far better-paid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jilly Gagnon: The Ethicist: Spiting Miss Lazy] Reference

Whenever one of his better-paid players actually began to produce, the Knicks sought to ship him to another team for more cap relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [New-Look Knicks Begin to Take Shape] Reference

FedEx's cuts for its better-paid employees also might give management credibility to ask for cuts elsewhere if the recession drags on.    From Wordnik.com.  [At FedEx, Kindest Cuts Are Smartest, Too] Reference

I don't want to lose in a combat situation because I choose in real life to spend my time in academia rather than a better-paid career.    From Wordnik.com.  [SonyBay] Reference

Antarctic on Tuesday was delayed 24 hours because half her crew left the ship to take up better-paid jobs with a private shipping company.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This is most noticeable in China and India, where thousands have better-paid jobs, generating -- some for the first time -- disposable income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spending, Trade Help Asia Defy U.S. Slump] Reference

Last year it fired 3,400 of its better-paid retail employees, replacing them with less-experienced workers and suffering a backlash in customer service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retail Losses Sap a Jobs Safety Net] Reference

Millions of farmers want the chance to exchange a life of subsistence agriculture for better-paid jobs in the cities, such as construction or factory work.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Move] Reference

To make matters worse, many Eastern European controllers are poorly trained, and the more-qualified ones are likely to seek better-paid jobs in Western Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Periscope] Reference

At other times he would secure better-paid employment by carrying a sedan-chair to some distant place, which would take him from home for several days at a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

He guarded his reputation with the care of a gardener watching over a rare plant, for it was his intention to retire early and to move on to better-paid appointments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cargo of Eagles]

Later, a strange and occasionally brilliant agglomeration of writers and editors built up; pretty often, some were seduced to go off to slicker, better-paid indenturements.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Ya, East 64th St.! 17 Giddy Years In Dotty Squalor] Reference

An uneducated immigrant may soon learn to handle a simple machine, but the complicated machinery that the better-paid workmen tend requires intelligence, care, and sobriety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

But steep living costs and the initial low level of wages mean that the position of all black workers, except a tiny percentage of the better-paid, is worse now than ever before.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Letters and Telegrams to the United Nations] Reference

But that has contributed to a shortage of doctors as many talented Chinese choose better-paid professions.    From Wordnik.com.  [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference