pay envelope

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Recent Examples of pay envelope Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope. Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021 The men who built the ships of the U.S. Navy men like Charles Fort of Dundalk and William Hooper of White Marsh had the satisfaction of doing a job right, of contributing to the nation's defense and of bringing home to their eastern Baltimore County communities a regular pay envelope. Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021 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 Roosevelt tied Landon to employers who had been slipping anti-Social Security propaganda into their workers’ pay envelopes. Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pay envelope
Noun
  • The salary cap is projected to be $154.6 million next season with the luxury tax projected as $187.9 million, the first apron projected at $195.9 million and the second apron projected at $207.8 million.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • With a salary cap rising to $95.5 million for 2025-26, the Ducks enter the offseason with what CapWages estimates will be more than $39 million of cap space available for usage.
    Eric Stephens, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By contrast, tariffs would differentiate American industrialization from the British experience, shielding domestic labor from subsistence wages and securing workers opportunities for social-economic mobility.
    Made by History, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
  • If even one employee lives in California, Illinois, or Oregon, the company could suddenly be responsible for following all three states' retirement plan mandates, wage laws, and reporting requirements, according to HR Daily Advisor.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Recipients can use an SSA calculator to figure out their payment total.
    Elaine Mallon, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Virginia Housing provided the first mortgage for the project and payments are about $125,000 a month.
    Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These changes could improve staff retention, especially if salaries achieve pay parity with kindergarten teachers.
    Dr. Alissa Chen, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Some states have introduced strict labor laws around things like pay transparency, mandatory benefits, retirement programs, and worker classification.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025

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“Pay envelope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pay%20envelope. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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