The government paid scientists the equivalent salary of professional athletes today.

An equivalent salary in 2008 dollars, adjusted for inflation, comes out to over $12,000 per month.

Anyone earning less than £15,000 on a full-time equivalent salary will not have to pay more.

Regular employees who were not provided with residences in the employees' compound were given housing allowances equivalent to 10% of their base salaries.

Iraq's unemployment rate is 50 percent, and police officers earn a relatively high average salary, equivalent to $228 a month.

These are full time equivalent salaries, which blows your 'argument' out of the water.

Despite this, parliamentary policy allowed Dahmer's widow to receive a $29,150 severance, which was equivalent to six months salary in office.

When Mr Mitchell graduated in 1995, the equivalent salary, given inflation to 2010, would have been £14383.56.

The part-time worker has the right to a monthly salary proportionally equivalent to that of a corresponding full-time employee.

The amounts were equivalent to 10-20 years salary for a captain and more than two years for an ordinary seaman.