"As you can see, we have a choice between the utility bills and salaries," the governor said.

The disparity between private-sector and judicial salaries grows every year.

The owners still want what they are calling "cost certainty," with a fixed relationship between revenues and salaries.

The league now wants what it calls cost certainty, a link between revenue and salaries.

However, the longer they are employed, the larger the gap between male and female salaries.

The gap between part-time and full-time salaries has increased.

Three of those industries - medicine, education and public administration - narrowed the gap between salaries.

They opposed a link between league revenue and salaries.

There is still a considerable difference between salaries for men and women in companies.

The difference between salaries in Government and the private professions never seemed quite so dramatic.