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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
In January, the court gave staff a three-month advance on their salaries, two court insiders told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to media.
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Molly Quell, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
The starting teacher salary for this school year in Park Hill is $43,210.
—Alecia Taylor, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
The same article also noted that the city’s pension cost was recently increased in the wake of salary enhancements.
—Chris Brewster, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
International competition must force the league to be better, teams to invest more and salary caps and transfer fee limits to be raised.
—Emily Olsen, The Athletic, 28 Jan. 2025
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Molly Quell, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
The starting teacher salary for this school year in Park Hill is $43,210.
—Alecia Taylor, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
The same article also noted that the city’s pension cost was recently increased in the wake of salary enhancements.
—Chris Brewster, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
International competition must force the league to be better, teams to invest more and salary caps and transfer fee limits to be raised.
—Emily Olsen, The Athletic, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salary
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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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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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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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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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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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“Salary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salary. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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