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the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
signed a contract for a new job with a salary of $60,000 per year
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Recent Examples of salary
That’s the kind of story that won’t happen in baseball without a salary cap.
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Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
Earning himself a $41 million raise on his $1 million salary, Profar set career marks in on-base percentage (.380), home runs (24) and walks (76) at 31.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Living in or near London was another factor, while his salary fits within Chelsea’s wage structure.
—Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
Carter chose the latter, where his starting salary was set at six hundred thousand dollars, or about $1.4 million today.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
Earning himself a $41 million raise on his $1 million salary, Profar set career marks in on-base percentage (.380), home runs (24) and walks (76) at 31.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Living in or near London was another factor, while his salary fits within Chelsea’s wage structure.
—Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
Carter chose the latter, where his starting salary was set at six hundred thousand dollars, or about $1.4 million today.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salary
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Rising wages have enabled people to keep spending, which has kept the overall economy humming along.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2025
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By the 2000s, the middle class these restaurants had been custom-built to serve was shrinking as wages stagnated and neighborhoods grew more segregated by income.—
Meghan McCarron Phil Donohue,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Tucker was the wife of a Pullman porter and became an early advocate for the union that pushed for better pay, better working conditions and a grievance process.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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That entity would evaluate whether the payments align with a fair market value and ensure the money is not a pay-to-play deal.—
Stacy St. Clair,
ProPublica,
4 Apr. 2025
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Per Report Social Security Changes Position On Controversial Phone Service Cuts Interesting factoid #2: The first monthly Social Security payment was issued on January 31, 1940 to Ida May Fuller of Vermont, who had paid $24.75 into the system in 1937, 1938, and 1939.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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All this documentation will come in handy if your loan balance or payment history is reported inaccurately in the future.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Salary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salary. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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