Thesaurus results for PAY ENVELOPE

pay envelope

noun

Definition of pay envelope

as in salary

the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services with this recession going on, workers shouldn't be expecting fatter pay envelopes

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Recent Examples of pay envelope Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021 Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope. — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019

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Noun

Inevitably, United will assess the market as the days go on, but Rashford would only want to play for a top team in Europe and his salary is only affordable to a few.

— Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Major League Baseball is pushing for its first salary cap since 1994, citing competitive imbalance and payroll disparity.

— Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of salary

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While productivity - how much economic value workers produce per hour - has continued to grow dramatically, wages at the bottom of the income ladder have not kept pace.

— Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
Though largely driven by surging housing prices, increases in food, transportation and childcare costs combined with stagnant local wages to propel Miami into cost-of-living notoriety.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026

Definition of wage

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Team executives would need to submit the first of those payments by noon Wednesday.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 26 July 2026
This is an agency with a history of billing scandals, of union bosses bullying pushover pols, of robust pensions and sweetheart health and dental plans that require little or no payment by employees.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026

Definition of payment

Noun

Some hospitality workers may have been asked to work longer hours during the games for higher pay – but that wouldn’t show up meaningfully in the jobs report.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
According to Bloomberg, citing Insurify, the average annual premium reached $8,292 last year, roughly four times what homeowners in New York pay, and costs are expected to keep climbing.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 July 2026

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