Slow economic times mean pay cuts for many workers (USA Today)
Story date: 2008-06-01 10:32:58
Added on: 2008-06-01 23:00:24
When times were good, Mark Gershman's salary was all but an afterthought. It made up only about 20% of his pay. The remaining 80% flowed from sales, which were brisk, of the floors and countertops he sells in the once white-hot housing market of Scottsdale, Ariz.
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