The benefit package will limit the company's cost

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By comparison, new hires will be paid between $14 and $16.23 an hour. And even as they start to accumulate raises tied to seniority, the far less lucrative benefit package will limit GM's cost for those employees to $25.65 an hour.Does my sentence below has about the same meaning?GM has limited costs for those employees -- each can get $25.65 an hour -- whose benefit package is far less lucrative.ThanksLiJ

Marius Hancu · Accepted Answer

Not quite.

When gettting hired, they will be paid between $14 and $16.23 an hour.
When they reach some seniority (years on the job), the limit/maximum of what they'll get will be $25.65 an hour.

Liveinjapan · Answer

Got it! Thanks, Marius. <img src="http://www.EnglishForward.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif"/>

Yankee · Answer

Hi LiJ

That seems to be a poorly worded sentence. The sentence does not refer to $26.65 as an employee's maximum hourly wage but rather as the company's maximum hourly cost per employee. Those are two very different things.

A company's cost for an employee normally includes the money the employee is actually paid as well as the cost of benefits such as health care, retirement plan, etc.

So, to me, your sentence does not seem to refer to the maximum wage

an employee can receive. Instead, it seems to refer to a maximum amount that includes both money paid directly to the employee AND other employee benefits.

However, if that were the case, it would be a HUGE reduction -- so huge that it would seem to be impossible.

Liveinjapan · Answer

I understand perfectly what you mean, Amy. Thanks.
Those writers may have to write a lot of news and they, I think, don't have enough time to care about the structure of their sentence.

The benefit package will limit the company's cost

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