How to Use salary in a Sentence

salary

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  • Employees receive an annual increase in salary.
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • They had been released in salary-cap moves in preparation for the new accounting year.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Her $90 monthly salary is about half that earned by her husband, a public-school teacher.
    — Stephanie Nolen Tiksa Negeri, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Since 1789, the presidential salary has been adjusted five times.
    — Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Other key findings from the survey include: Job hoppers saw a 35% salary increase over the last three years, nearly double that of tenured employees.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

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