In contrast, rental payments are likely to form a more constant proportion of current pay over the life cycle.

The current average pay of the car-haul employees - drivers and the garage workers who maintain the trucks - is about $20 an hour.

However, research suggests that current pay or play proposals are limited in their ability to increase coverage among the working poor.

Also, they are offering me a 6 percent higher salary than my current pay.

Of course, if your employer is desperate to hire you, he may counter with a second offer at your current pay - or higher.

The current top pay of $43,319 would rise over two years to $52,892.

His current pay, about $8 million a year, is one of the highest in television.

The group agreed to recommend that Cabinet-level officers should be paid $155,000 a year; their current pay is $99,500.

The district's current top pay of $43,319 will be raised to $46,594, and then $53,938 in the third year.

They will receive an average rise of just one per cent annually after the current pay freezes expire in 2012 or 2013.