How to Use hourly in a Sentence

hourly

1 of 2 adverb

• New part-time employees will start at $21 per hour and move up to $23 hourly.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023
• Keep in mind that each person's healthy body weight can vary daily and even hourly.
  — Caroline Thomason, Health, 14 June 2023
• Eight patrons will be called hourly from 5-9 p.m. and two will make the final drawing.
  — Nick Sortal, miamiherald, 23 May 2017
• During the peak of harvest, when the work pays piece-rate rather than hourly, Bucio can earn as much as $1,200 a week.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
• SUP Odyssey east of Guerneville offers hourly and multi-day rentals (from $25; supodyssey.com).
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Merkley wrote his amendment to apply to hourly, not salaried, workers.
  — Jenna Sauers, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2018
• The day of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the site will feature hourly doorbusters as well.
  — Paige Szmodis, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2019
• Employees working hourly will get paid time-and-a-half.
  — Keira Wingate, USA TODAY, 18 June 2021
• Wage bumps for full-time employees will bring the average top rate to $49 hourly.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023
• There's a minimum of two hours and a $5 hourly surcharge for extreme weather.
  — Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg.com, 13 June 2017
• Details seem to emerge almost hourly about the extent of his corruption and subterfuge.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• With just days to the Iowa caucuses, the front-runner is getting a bit nervous and trashing his top rivals hourly.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
• The messages arrived hourly on an online tribute board set up by the funeral home.
  — oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2021
• Biden’s national security team briefed him hourly as Prigozhin’s forces were on the move, the president said.
  — Seung Min Kim, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• Minimum wage in the state is $15.50 hourly, almost twice the federal requirement but still not enough to match the pace of inflation.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2023
• For more specialized workers like butchers and bakers, hourly starting wages are $25 to $30.
  — Paul Wiseman, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023
• Under current plans, trains would run every 30 minutes during peak times and hourly during off-peak times, with six hours off each night.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2023
• But for this family, enduring dirt, hunger and poverty hourly, the impact is very real.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 17 May 2017
• The data comes from the National Weather Service and will be updated hourly throughout the storm event to reflect the latest notices.
  — Yoohyun Jung, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2023
• Biden's national security team briefed him hourly as Prigozhin's forces were on move, the president said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• During the same year, real hourly wages remained flat or fell for nearly all American workers.
  — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2016
• The burrito chain plans to reach that compensation level by the end of June and will set hourly starting wages at $11 to $18 an hour, according to a statement Monday.
  — Fortune, 10 May 2021
• Of the Alabama firms questioned, most are seeking hourly craft positions, and more than half are seeking salaried field and office workers.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• Some hourly Walmart employees at a select number of stores will be receiving a raise as part of a test by the nation’s largest retailer.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 27 Jan. 2020
• Some said they were given no prior information on how much they would be paid hourly, although others said they were told on their first day that they would be paid $19 an hour.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• Large employers are driving hourly wages closer to the Democrats’ $15 goal without a federal mandate.
  — Andy Puzder, WSJ, 13 June 2019
• There is hand sanitizer all around, and all surfaces are cleaned and disinfected hourly.
  — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 4 June 2020
• Zapolin explained that ketamine clinics are currently limited to low-dose lozenges that have to take them hourly.
  — Benjamin Adams, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• Despite seeing her hourly wage nearly double, Shani Rahman still lives in a Bronx homeless shelter with her 3-year-old daughter Monique.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
• Elevator buttons had to be cleaned hourly, and electronic key cards had to be sanitized each time they were returned.
  — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020

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hourly

2 of 2 adjective

• The longer a driver stays parked, the more the hourly fee could inch up, Johnson said.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2023
• On an hourly basis, the park can produce about 2,500 parts.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2023
• The study assumed a 20% increase in hourly labor costs.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023
• Walmart is cutting the pay for some of its new hourly workers.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 8 Sep. 2023
• Last year, the average hourly wage for fast-food workers was $16.21.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2023
• That same year, GM agreed to give hourly workers there an 8.5% wage increase as part of a new agreement.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2024
• Average hourly earnings moved up by a 0.5%, which is faster than the 0.3% growth earnings saw in March.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• The pay per piece had to be fair so that working at a reasonable pace (in the worker’s view) would pay about the same as the hourly wage for that job in that town.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 19 July 2023
• The exemption would apply to full-time, hourly workers.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 10 Apr. 2023
• The job mostly paid on an hourly basis, as much as thirty-five dollars per hour.
  — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• In this tight California job market, the college student asked for the hourly bump, and got it.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024
• But the hourly minimum wage of the workers who serve you is now $20, a notable increase from the previous $16.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Five dollars felt expensive, when that was about my hourly rate.
  — Erika Veurink, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
• The hourly pay range will be about $20 to $25 for starting employees, with benefits.
  — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 7 Feb. 2024
• There are hourly, daily, and super jackpots for players to grab.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
• The coffee giant said its average hourly wage is now around $17.50.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Average hourly earnings increased 0.3% in May, a slowdown from the 0.4% rise the prior month.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• But those hired since – a majority of hourly workers – do not.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Walmart raised starting pay for its hourly store workers last year.
  — Serenah McKay, arkansasonline.com, 30 Jan. 2024
• Provide competitive base salaries or hourly wages that reflect the living wage and the market rate for the role.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
• And how might a four-day work week impact employees earning hourly wages?
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• Plus, your own volunteer time isn’t deductible, no matter your usual hourly rate for paid work of the same type.
  — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• Like Maya, Lina wrote the poems for tags, ran the company’s website, and resented her $12 hourly wage.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
• Growth in average hourly wages ticked up to 4.4 percent from a year ago after easing in March.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• The exemption would apply to all full-time hourly workers in the public and private sectors.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 1 June 2023
• In other words, the hourly wage of workers earning the federal minimum has been cut almost in half in the last 56 years.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• And workers who were recently hired will see their hourly pay double.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• And hourly wages rose last month at the fastest pace since July, which may alarm the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 May 2023
• Average hourly wages are seen having increased 0.3% from the previous month and 4.4% from a year ago.
  — Candice Choi, WSJ, 2 June 2023
• Some companies charge an hourly rate, others by the number of bedrooms and bathrooms.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024