six-figure
adjective
: in the hundreds of thousands : totaling 100,000 or more but less than one million
a six-figure income
Examples of six-figure in a Sentence
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Instead, a select group of fortunate graduates are securing the equivalent of six-figure salaries straight out of college.
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has hit Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a six-figure hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
After being spurned by networks large and small, the U.F.C. leadership devised a last-ditch plan to become profitable: a reality TV show in which 16 athletes would live together in a Las Vegas house, training and fighting one another with a six-figure contract on the line.
—Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
The winner's caddie can easily go home with a six-figure paycheck after four days of work.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
Onlookers undoubtedly will be calculating whether her haul is roughly equivalent to the six-figure valuation.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Lopez was among four others in the state who also recently won six-figure prizes playing scratch-off games, lottery officials said.
—Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
More recently, the district reached a six-figure settlement with a Black math teacher at the high school who, in 2014, was a target of racist graffiti.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Home buying is increasingly a six-figure salary ordeal Americans need an even heftier salary to be able to afford a house in almost half the country.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has hit Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a six-figure hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
After being spurned by networks large and small, the U.F.C. leadership devised a last-ditch plan to become profitable: a reality TV show in which 16 athletes would live together in a Las Vegas house, training and fighting one another with a six-figure contract on the line.
—Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
The winner's caddie can easily go home with a six-figure paycheck after four days of work.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
Onlookers undoubtedly will be calculating whether her haul is roughly equivalent to the six-figure valuation.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Lopez was among four others in the state who also recently won six-figure prizes playing scratch-off games, lottery officials said.
—Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
More recently, the district reached a six-figure settlement with a Black math teacher at the high school who, in 2014, was a target of racist graffiti.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Home buying is increasingly a six-figure salary ordeal Americans need an even heftier salary to be able to afford a house in almost half the country.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Six-figure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/six-figure. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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