11.   And further, for applicants who are returning to the labor market after years of family and volunteer work, pay levels from jobs held years ago are meaningless.

12.   And many have improved their efficiency so much that productivity gains are outpacing the still modest rise in pay levels.

13.   Baseball players reject the idea of such a cap and want each member to be able to negotiate his own pay level.

14.   Before doing so, it is important to remember that research on pay levels can lead to some mixed messages.

15.   Airline employees throughout the European Union worry increasingly about their jobs and pay levels as airlines battle to compete at a time of falling regulatory barriers.

16.   But women and employers now have a new tool to address the problem of gender bias in pay levels.

17.   CHW officials respond that they have recently raised pay levels to a par with other hospitals.

18.   Each annual meeting season, when public companies mail proxy reports to their shareholders, murmurs fly about the Grand Canyon gap between CEO and employee pay levels.

19.   Education and experience requirements vary with pay level.

20.   If pay levels are shrouded in secrecy, employees are still going to talk about what they make, only this time the numbers will be inflated.