How to Use salary in a Sentence

salary

noun

• Employees receive an annual increase in salary.
• She was offered a salary of $50,000 a year.
• Jones and Briere have plenty of help behind the scenes with the salary cap and other business workings of the team.
  — Dan Gelston, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• And the money that’s paid for all this, including the CEO salaries, is in subscriptions!
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 2023
• Jacobs’ base salary will be highest for an NFL running back in the 2023 season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• The high prices put area housing out of reach, even for those earning above-average salaries.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2024
• And, under state law, the council and mayor must change their salaries before a new term begins.
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• If an officer spends less than a year, the agency could recoup 100% of the cost of the training up to the officer's first-year salary.
  — Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023
• Starting over under a new name resets the salary structure(*).
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• Behind the scenes, the league has started talks to secure the billions of dollars in media-rights fees that will help pay their huge salaries.
  — Amol Sharma, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• And then things start coming from there — salaries, expansion.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023
• Her $90 monthly salary is about half that earned by her husband, a public-school teacher.
  — Stephanie Nolen Tiksa Negeri, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• During her 14 years on the Supreme Court, Sotomayor has made about as much from her books as from her government salary.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• Despite a good salary and frequent raises, it’s been tough to keep up with inflation.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Pair its salary cap space with its collection of young assets, and a sizable deal isn't exactly out of the picture.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 16 May 2023
• Student debt has become a major issue, and salaries often aren't enough to keep therapists in the field.
  — Mark Kreidler | Kaiser Health News, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2023
• And salaries run at all-time highs — even if inflation is eating up any recent raises.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
• Fitting them all under the salary cap could scramble those plans, however.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• On a salary of about $50 a month, however, the women often struggle to support themselves.
  — Andrei Popoviciu, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
• The council signed off three months ago on a four-year package of raises and benefits that, over the life of the agreement, is expected to add about $1 billion in salary costs to the LAPD.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• If not, an arbitration panel will pick either the salary the player requests or the salary the team requests.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• The Pacers, meanwhile, needed to make a big signing just to get to the salary floor under the new collective bargaining agreement.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2024
• The veteran players the Lakers can send out likely won’t drive much interest beyond the way their salaries are required to make a trade work.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• But cutting him seems unlikely with his salary cap situation and the lack of depth at inside linebacker.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics put out its annual list of the blue-collar jobs that, on average, have the highest salaries.
  — Jena McGregor, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• After that, the people at MCA offered me a staff writing position for $100 a week—not as a salary but as an advance against my royalties.
  — Will Hodge, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
• My baseline is having at least a years’ worth of salary accessible in a semi-liquid account, like the stock market.
  — Holly Corbett, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Searches for flexible jobs with above-average salaries are way up, according to a job search site.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
• The company did not specify in the release whether this move had to do with the company’s problems paying rent and salaries earlier this year.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2024
• During his Iceland class, the school reimbursed him $5,250 for his lodging, in addition to paying his salary.
  — Jo Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024