In the 13 years since she became the top legal officer at Paychex Inc., Stephanie L. Schaeffer’s job description has changed significantly. While she still oversees all of the traditional legal functions, like litigation, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and ...

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New York state is starting to seek data on salaries at nonprofit social service agencies that receive state funding and tax breaks while some of them are paying six-figure salaries.

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Members of a Special Commission on Judicial Compensation have a lot of submissions to review before making recommendations to the state on raises for judges. Some of the more than 30 people who testified at a hearing last week ...

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Funding is not available this year for the LawPrep Summer Internship Program, so program coordinator Jack Hurley is hoping his colleagues in the legal profession will fill the gap. Instead of just sponsoring interns this year, he would like law employers to pay the interns’ salaries, which were previously funded with grants.

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The average hourly wage for a local manufacturing job is $15.17 an hour, down from $15.29 a year ago, while the average paid locally for unskilled hourly jobs was $9.89, up from $9.71 in 2010, according to the Rochester Business Alliance’s 2011 Annual Wage and Salary Surveys.

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Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature proposed freezing the salaries of the highest paid county employees on Wednesday. The proposal would freeze the salaries at the 2010 level for nearly 400 employees classified as management and professional, and rescind a 2011 pay raise.

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A recent report shows the rate of salary increases for in-house legal counsel continues to slow through a rough economy. But in the big picture, lawyers aren’t starving. Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, a New Jersey-based legal industry consulting firm, released a study this month that surveyed more than 6,000 attorneys across nine levels and more than 5,000 non-attorney staff on pay rates.

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