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In Wall's school district, this year's starting salary of $46,650 is up 8% from last year's $43,100, said Shain Bergan, Kansas City Public Schools public relations coordinator.
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USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
Forward-thinking Val, however, intuits that the change would mean less direct contact with Meredith, and her elevation would leave a vacancy at the managerial level, replete with benefits and a forty-thousand-dollar starting salary—a role that would fall to one of them.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
The contract also sets out a minimum starting salary, increases pay for all union staffers, provides some layoff protections and continues paying matching funds on employee contributions in the 401(k) retirement plan.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
De León voted last year in favor of the four-year police contract, which also increased officers’ starting salary.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
For example, San Jose, California, has the highest monthly average starting salary; Fremont, California, has the fewest part-time employees for every 100 full-time employees; and Pearl City, Hawaii has the lowest share of workers living in poverty.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
The platform used the ONS’s measure of affordability in its study and the average graduate starting salary of £29,000 ($36,000) a year.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
The $50,000 starting salary mandated by the bill would boost Arkansas to near the top in the country in minimum pay for educators and offer $2,000 raises to those making more than the minimum and $10,000 in bonus pay for high test scores or teaching in a geographic or subject area of high need.
—Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2023
Hogsett bumped the pay even further this spring, increasing the police department’s starting salary to nearly $72,000.
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2023
USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
Forward-thinking Val, however, intuits that the change would mean less direct contact with Meredith, and her elevation would leave a vacancy at the managerial level, replete with benefits and a forty-thousand-dollar starting salary—a role that would fall to one of them.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
The contract also sets out a minimum starting salary, increases pay for all union staffers, provides some layoff protections and continues paying matching funds on employee contributions in the 401(k) retirement plan.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
De León voted last year in favor of the four-year police contract, which also increased officers’ starting salary.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
For example, San Jose, California, has the highest monthly average starting salary; Fremont, California, has the fewest part-time employees for every 100 full-time employees; and Pearl City, Hawaii has the lowest share of workers living in poverty.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
The platform used the ONS’s measure of affordability in its study and the average graduate starting salary of £29,000 ($36,000) a year.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
The $50,000 starting salary mandated by the bill would boost Arkansas to near the top in the country in minimum pay for educators and offer $2,000 raises to those making more than the minimum and $10,000 in bonus pay for high test scores or teaching in a geographic or subject area of high need.
—Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2023
Hogsett bumped the pay even further this spring, increasing the police department’s starting salary to nearly $72,000.
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2023
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“Starting salary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starting%20salary. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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