base pay

noun

: a rate or amount of pay for a standard work period, job, or position exclusive of additional payments or allowances

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The Michigan compromise boosts tip earners’ base pay to $4.74 an hour from $4.01 previously, rising to 50% of the state’s standard minimum wage by 2031. Maya Huter, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025 During the remainder of their time with Cruise, the affected employees will receive full base pay, as well as eight weeks severance. Michael Wayland,hayden Field, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025 By comparison, the higher end of the base pay for a Google software engineer is upwards of $29,000, according to tech industry salary insight platform levels.fyi. Simone McCarthy, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025 Worlds of Fun also contended with backlash from maintenance workers who authorized a strike at the end of the 2024 operating season, citing ride safety issues, surprise job duty swaps and poor base pay. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for base pay

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of base pay was in 1862

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“Base pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/base%20pay. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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