If you can give your boss something he or she needs (a new client or a sizable contract, for example) just before merit pay decisions are being made, you are more likely to get the raise you want.

如果你能在决定绩效工资之前满足老板的需求（比如一个新客户或一份大合同），你就更有可能得到你想要的加薪。

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Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

改革一直遭到强烈反对，最让人惊讶的可能是在教育业，其中的特许学校、学会和绩效工资都面临着持久的斗争。

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But they are also trying to widen pay differentials further down the organisation: about 90% of American firms use merit pay, for example.

可是同时，他们也在试图加大各公司上下工资差异，例如，美国90%的公司都采用了业绩工资。

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Third, it created a merit-pay system in which teachers whose pupils pass certain exams get bonuses.

ECONOMIST: Conservative education reform

His merit-pay proposal would expand the uses of a teacher-evaluation system still being hammered out for the city's teachers.

WSJ: Thompson Proposes Plan for Teacher Merit Wages

This opinion is supported by long-term research published recently in the United States, which tracked a sample of academics who had worked within a merit-pay system.

BBC: Performance pay 'doomed to fail'