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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All salary information via Spotrac and salary-cap information via RealGM.Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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What is coming is a salary cap, revenue sharing, some structure, but until then boosters with means who want to spend it on their favorite team still can blow their money like a sailor on leave.Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Jan. 2025
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In 2024, wages beyond $168,600 were not taxed for Social Security.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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Guehi, given his impressive progress at Palace and rise to become a regular starter for England, projects on his next contract to potentially be one of the higher earners in the first-team wage structure that Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital have implemented in the last two years.Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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People who receive the refunds should cash their check within 90 days or redeem their PayPal payment within 30 days, according to the agency.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2025
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The proposal would finish phasing in controversial changes CMS began implementing in 2023 that are aimed at making payments to plans more accurate.Maya Goldman, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
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California's department of corrections says individuals who are part of this program are there voluntarily and are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, with additional pay provided during emergencies and in other circumstances.Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
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What does the federal budget pay for? More than two million civilians are working in the federal government today, data from the White House reveals.Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Pay envelope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pay%20envelope. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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