How to Use salary in a Sentence
salary
noun- Employees receive an annual increase in salary.
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There are still four years and $104 million in base salary to go.
— Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024 -
On a cash basis, Nabi took home a salary of $3.5 million.
— Evan Clark, WWD, 7 Aug. 2024 -
Base pay is just part of a worker’s salary at Waffle House.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 June 2024 -
Jones and Briere have plenty of help behind the scenes with the salary cap and other business workings of the team.
— Dan Gelston, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023 -
If someone works for 2 years, i.e. a 30 day notice plus 2 months salary.
— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024 -
But several are well past 30 and most play positions at the high end of the tag's salary scale.
— Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023 -
And the money that’s paid for all this, including the CEO salaries, is in subscriptions!
— Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 2023 -
The average salary in the NFL last season: more than $2 million.
— Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2023 -
Staying above the second salary-cap apron could mean that Golden State's bench can’t be shored up that way.
— Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2023 -
The two school districts will continue to pay equal shares of Montgomery’s salary.
— Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Hill will be making close to $1 million, according to a source with knowledge of the salary.
— Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022 -
Jackson could still want a notable base salary to entice him to sign with a team coming off a 2-15 record.
— Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024 -
Jacobs’ base salary will be highest for an NFL running back in the 2023 season.
— Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023 -
All workers will also get a one-time cash bonus of 3% of their salary in December.
— Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022 -
The high prices put area housing out of reach, even for those earning above-average salaries.
— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2024 -
The 49ers’ success has brought with it cash and salary cap concerns, one of the byproducts of a talented roster.
— Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024 -
On the other hand, since the start of the pandemic, the salary Americans need to buy a starter home has almost doubled.
— Alena Botros, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2024 -
And, under state law, the council and mayor must change their salaries before a new term begins.
— Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024 -
If an officer spends less than a year, the agency could recoup 100% of the cost of the training up to the officer's first-year salary.
— Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023 -
Starting over under a new name resets the salary structure(*).
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023 -
Travis Kelce may have a jaw-dropping new salary, but he’s still got a ways to go to impress Jimmy Kimmel.
— Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024 -
Poeltl’s salary would fit perfectly into a deal for Grayson Allen.
— Brian Sampson, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022 -
Many of them are young men from South Asia, enticed by the prospect of steady employment and higher salaries in Russia.
— Helen Regan, CNN, 10 July 2024 -
Wagner was released by Seattle just over a year ago in a salary cap move.
— Tim Booth, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023 -
Behind the scenes, the league has started talks to secure the billions of dollars in media-rights fees that will help pay their huge salaries.
— Amol Sharma, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023 -
And then things start coming from there — salaries, expansion.
— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023 -
Raising eyebrows was his nearly $1 million a year in salary, far more than the heads of some larger unions.
— Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024 -
The filing also confirmed that Meghan and Harry do not receive any salary from the foundation.
— Erin Hill, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024 -
When head writer Walter Kempley quit over a salary dispute, Brickman replaced him.
— Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2024
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