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The isolation, long shifts, and high demand for oil drive salaries, with bonuses for overtime and hazard pay.
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Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Anyone assigned to the rapidly fraying Ratliff family deserves a promotion, if not some hazard pay.
—Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
This therapist will require hazard pay, MI6-style training, and a Gallagher-to-English dictionary.
—Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
Since 2021, legislators have passed a series of measures temporarily boosting wildland firefighter pay, but those bonuses have not counted toward overtime, hazard pay and retirement benefits.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
This decision represents a significant milestone in labor relations, extending hazard pay provisions beyond union contracts to a broader range of workers.
—Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
Depending on seniority, skill rate, hazard pay, overtime differential, plus tonnage bonus (which can be anywhere between $15,000-$20,000 a year), a longshoreman can make between $150,000-$250,000 annually.
—Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
God, all of these young female gymnasts who were treated terribly by the establishment deserve a ton of back hazard pay, for starters.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 July 2024
Ultimately, too much of the menu, which includes such large-format dishes as suckling pig, leads me to wonder if food critics can file for hazard pay.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
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Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Anyone assigned to the rapidly fraying Ratliff family deserves a promotion, if not some hazard pay.
—Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
This therapist will require hazard pay, MI6-style training, and a Gallagher-to-English dictionary.
—Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
Since 2021, legislators have passed a series of measures temporarily boosting wildland firefighter pay, but those bonuses have not counted toward overtime, hazard pay and retirement benefits.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
This decision represents a significant milestone in labor relations, extending hazard pay provisions beyond union contracts to a broader range of workers.
—Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
Depending on seniority, skill rate, hazard pay, overtime differential, plus tonnage bonus (which can be anywhere between $15,000-$20,000 a year), a longshoreman can make between $150,000-$250,000 annually.
—Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
God, all of these young female gymnasts who were treated terribly by the establishment deserve a ton of back hazard pay, for starters.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 July 2024
Ultimately, too much of the menu, which includes such large-format dishes as suckling pig, leads me to wonder if food critics can file for hazard pay.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
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“Hazard pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hazard%20pay. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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