How to Use salary in a Sentence

salary

noun

• Employees receive an annual increase in salary.
• The deal could grow to more than $110 million with a rise in the salary cap.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Head coach pay is up in the NFL, but the salaries are still a fraction of what stars make.
  — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 28 Dec. 2024
• There are still four years and $104 million in base salary to go.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024
• The team adding those players will be adding $25 million to their salary cap.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 May 2022
• On a cash basis, Nabi took home a salary of $3.5 million.
  — Evan Clark, WWD, 7 Aug. 2024
• The price of each tender also rises with the salary cap each year.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2025
• But with the salary cap going up just $1 million, there will be changes.
  — Wire Reports, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• Base pay is just part of a worker’s salary at Waffle House.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 June 2024
• 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
• GroundTruth pays half of each reporter’s salary, and helps newsrooms raise enough funds to cover the rest.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
• If someone works for 2 years, i.e. a 30 day notice plus 2 months salary.
  — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
• But several are well past 30 and most play positions at the high end of the tag's salary scale.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• That’s the kind of story that won’t happen in baseball without a salary cap.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
• If Rodgers retires or is released, the Jets must eat a $49 million salary cap charge.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
• And the money that’s paid for all this, including the CEO salaries, is in subscriptions!
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 2023
• The average salary in the NFL last season: more than $2 million.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2023
• The Red Sox haven’t exceeded the luxury tax since 2022, and Buehler’s salary doesn’t put them over the threshold.
  — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 24 Dec. 2024
• Staying above the second salary-cap apron could mean that Golden State's bench can’t be shored up that way.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2023
• The two school districts will continue to pay equal shares of Montgomery’s salary.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• Hill will be making close to $1 million, according to a source with knowledge of the salary.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
• By August, Biden, Sr.,’s salary was a hundred dollars a week.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• Jackson could still want a notable base salary to entice him to sign with a team coming off a 2-15 record.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
• Jacobs’ base salary will be highest for an NFL running back in the 2023 season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• In a salary-cap league like the NFL, finding building blocks is essential.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2022
• All workers will also get a one-time cash bonus of 3% of their salary in December.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• The high prices put area housing out of reach, even for those earning above-average salaries.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The 49ers’ success has brought with it cash and salary cap concerns, one of the byproducts of a talented roster.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• But the salary cap is designed to keep the league competitive, and time has always been the great equalizer in sports.
  — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2025
• In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep giving up its coal to pay rare six-figure salaries.
  — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 1 May 2025