Maximum wage of jobs and a guaranteed minimum income for the poorest workers. In his campaign for the French presidency in 2012, Jean-Luc Mélenchon argued in favour of a tax rate of 100% on incomes over €360,000. In the United Kingdom until 1901, individual clubs had set their own wage policies. That year, the Football League ratified a maximum weekly wage for footballers of £4 ("2012: £"). This severely limited the ability of the best players in the country to forgo the need to take paid employment outside of football and, this in turn, led to the formation of The Players' Union
Maximum wage a limit placed directly, usually as a number in terms of currency, upon the amount of compensation any individual is allowed to earn in a given time period. In 2011 Venezuela announced that from January 2012 its public officials would be subject to salary limits, with different types of official positions subject to different maximum salaries. At the highest level, officials may receive salaries no higher than 12 times the minimum wage. State governors, for example, may receive a maximum of 9 times the minimum wage. "Scaled taxation" is a method of progressive taxation that raises the rate at which