as in salary
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
with this recession going on, workers shouldn't be expecting fatter pay envelopes
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Recent Examples of pay envelope
Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope.
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Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
The men who built the ships of the U.S. Navy men like Charles Fort of Dundalk and William Hooper of White Marsh had the satisfaction of doing a job right, of contributing to the nation's defense and of bringing home to their eastern Baltimore County communities a regular pay envelope.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope.
—John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019
Roosevelt tied Landon to employers who had been slipping anti-Social Security propaganda into their workers’ pay envelopes.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
The men who built the ships of the U.S. Navy men like Charles Fort of Dundalk and William Hooper of White Marsh had the satisfaction of doing a job right, of contributing to the nation's defense and of bringing home to their eastern Baltimore County communities a regular pay envelope.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope.
—John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019
Roosevelt tied Landon to employers who had been slipping anti-Social Security propaganda into their workers’ pay envelopes.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pay envelope
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Palace, for all their relative financial might, cannot match a combination of the world-class facilities at Chelsea’s Cobham site, for example, and the potential salaries on offer at bigger clubs.—
Matt Woosnam,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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But even those limited activities have been disrupted because NGOs don’t have money to pay the salaries of aid workers and, in some cases, USAID stop-work orders are still in place. CNN has reached out to USAID for comment.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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The analysis found that all nations involved in a trade war experience a reduction in real wages, with farmers suffering the greatest losses on average.—
Jack Randall,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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From 2018 to 2022, individuals and organizations from blue states contributed nearly 60% of all federal tax receipts but only received 53% of all federal contributions to states in the form of either direct payments, grants, contracts, or wages.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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But one of the issues in the debate is that House Speaker Matt Ritter of Hartford — a key budget negotiator — has called for making highly visible tax relief that could come in the form of direct payments.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
18 Feb. 2025
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Before pursuing an eviction, CHA works with residents who are behind on rent by setting up payment plans, referring them to financial counseling and nonprofit legal services and searching for rental assistance funds, the authority said.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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San Diego officials say the effort to raise user fees is being propelled partly by inflation increasing the city’s costs for equipment and maintenance at its facilities and partly to offset the cost of generous pay raises given to nearly all city employees since 2023.—
Jeanne Rawdin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article Senator J.D. Ford, D-Indianapolis, attempted to amend a bill making school board elections partisan to only include a pay raise for board members, but that amendment failed Thursday.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Pay envelope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pay%20envelope. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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