nonmanagerial

adjective

non·​man·​a·​ge·​ri·​al ˌnän-ˌma-nə-ˈjir-ē-əl How to pronounce nonmanagerial (audio)
: not of or relating to a manager or group of managers : not managerial
a nonmanagerial role in the company
nonmanagerial workers

Examples of nonmanagerial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Nationally, average hourly earnings for nonmanagerial employees were up 6.1% in August from a year before, about the same pace in recent months, according to the Labor Department. Ken Thomas, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022 Average hourly earnings for nonmanagerial employees are up 12.6 percent over the past two years. Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022 While that fact has historically created a significant pay gap between front-of-house workers like servers and back-of-house workers like cooks, the legalization of tip pooling in California in 2018 has enabled all nonmanagerial employees to collect tips through pooling. Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 3 Sep. 2020 For workers in those industries, like nonmanagerial gas station workers who saw pay jump 14.1 percent to $14.72 an hour, wage gains have stayed ahead of rising prices. Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2022 In the strong economies of the late 1960s and late 1990s, average hourly earnings for nonmanagerial workers persistently rose faster than inflation. New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021 By June, the average nonmanagerial restaurant worker was making $15.31 an hour, a more than 10 percent increase from the pre-pandemic $13.86 an hour. Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 9 Aug. 2021 The jobs report issued Friday showed that average hourly earnings for nonmanagerial workers were 1.3% higher in May than two months earlier. Neil Irwin New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021 Amazon and the Alabama warehouse workers have disagreed about the size of the bargaining unit, or essentially how many nonmanagerial fulfillment workers are employed at the warehouse, which opened in the spring. Sebastian Herrera, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of nonmanagerial was in 1892

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“Nonmanagerial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonmanagerial. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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