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
Noun
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The lawsuit claims that Robinson was paid a salary of $125,000 by the Chiefs, but that his research found other NFL teams paid comparable positions an average salary of $171,932, not including other benefits.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2025
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Since 2013, the Dodgers have exceeded MLB’s luxury tax threshold (the closest thing baseball has to a soft salary cap) eight times and topped the league in spending seven times.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Richard Arsenault claimed his supervisors retaliated against him for seeking life-saving medical care and that he was shorted owed wages.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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The German signed a new deal — his current one — helping to spread his wages over more years.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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The conflict escalated rapidly after Canada's Finance Department confirmed Friday that companies would still be required to make their first digital tax payments Monday, despite ongoing negotiations.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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To purchase an item, Luckin customers browse the coffee store's menu and make payments directly online.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
30 June 2025
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Whereas a hardware company might offer a new Ph.D $150K or $200K to start, a software company (with much higher gross margins) can win the day with a $500K package including performance pay and equity.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Still, some employers are hesitant to reduce weekly hours while providing full pay and benefits.—
Julia Sullivan,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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“Pay envelope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pay%20envelope. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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