as in wage
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
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median salary for environmental engineers is about $96,820.
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Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The Clippers have publicly suggested that there is evidence the team did not circumvent salary rules.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
The pay gap grew in 2024 as men's salaries increased while women's stayed the same.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
The key question for the NBA is whether Aspiration’s deal with Leonard was made to enable the Clippers to circumvent the salary cap.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The Clippers have publicly suggested that there is evidence the team did not circumvent salary rules.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
The pay gap grew in 2024 as men's salaries increased while women's stayed the same.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
The key question for the NBA is whether Aspiration’s deal with Leonard was made to enable the Clippers to circumvent the salary cap.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salary
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The Department of Labor withdrew a plan to establish a minimum wage for workers with disabilities and abolished wage protections for the home-health aides who assist millions of seniors and disabled people.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
16 Sep. 2025
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Therefore, there are some unfortunate parallels between young Gen Z needing to sacrifice wages due to wavering job opportunities and millennials graduating into the Great Recession.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Denholm is giving interviews to explain the board’s decision to award Musk a pay package that could be worth $1 trillion if the company hits milestones for market capitalization, profits, and vehicle production.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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After years of demanding better pay and protections from individual farmers and buyers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers — the anti-trafficking organization that uncovered the first examples of abuse in the massive federal case — launched the Fair Food Program in 2010.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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Likewise, the internet has made fundraising much easier with the use of online payment methods, which are easy to set up and difficult to trace.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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In most cases, at least 75% of federal funds must go directly to wages and benefits for participants, with the payments usually being made by the local and statewide organizations that recruit the participants and place them into host agencies.—
Cal J. Halvorsen,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Salary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salary. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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