How to Use salary in a Sentence

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
  • 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
  • And the money that’s paid for all this, including the CEO salaries, is in subscriptions!
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 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 | Minabinett@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • During her 14 years on the Supreme Court, Sotomayor has made about as much from her books as from her government salary.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
  • Despite a good salary and frequent raises, it’s been tough to keep up with inflation.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Wilson said the raises will keep city officer salaries a bit higher than deputy salaries.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024
  • Pair its salary cap space with its collection of young assets, and a sizable deal isn't exactly out of the picture.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 16 May 2023
  • Student debt has become a major issue, and salaries often aren't enough to keep therapists in the field.
    — Mark Kreidler | Kaiser Health News, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • And salaries run at all-time highs — even if inflation is eating up any recent raises.
    — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Fitting them all under the salary cap could scramble those plans, however.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • On a salary of about $50 a month, however, the women often struggle to support themselves.
    — Andrei Popoviciu, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The council signed off three months ago on a four-year package of raises and benefits that, over the life of the agreement, is expected to add about $1 billion in salary costs to the LAPD.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • If not, an arbitration panel will pick either the salary the player requests or the salary the team requests.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The Pacers, meanwhile, needed to make a big signing just to get to the salary floor under the new collective bargaining agreement.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The veteran players the Lakers can send out likely won’t drive much interest beyond the way their salaries are required to make a trade work.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Lawyers at the top of their game are netting eight-figure salaries as law firms take on bigger revenue-generating clients.
    — Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 2 July 2024
  • But cutting him seems unlikely with his salary cap situation and the lack of depth at inside linebacker.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Companies like McKinsey have gone as far as paying current employees nine months’ salary to leave to maintain the facade of nonstop growth and expansion.
    — Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2024

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