salaries

noun

plural of salary
as in wages
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services signed a contract for a new job with a salary of $60,000 per year

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Recent Examples of salaries The list identifies 93 federal employees, sharing their full names, salaries, employment histories and pictures of their faces. — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026 The union appears to be the main supporter of the proposal and says the restrictions would prevent excessive spending on executive salaries, fundraisers and other administrative expenses. — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 Small amounts of employees listed, large salaries listed for employees. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Oct. 2026 High salaries are spent locally, supporting nearby small businesses. — Max Harden, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026 And SpaceX faces fierce competition in the US space industry for talented engineers, with higher salaries offered by Blue Origin, and attractive alternatives such as Stoke Space, Rocket Lab, Firefly, and Relativity Space all recruiting. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 Oct. 2026 Different industries and different backgrounds provide a pool of varied perspectives for bouncing ideas around about anything from negotiating salaries to making difficult management decisions. — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 29 Oct. 2026 The players believe eliminating deferrals would suppress salaries. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2026 The entry-level salaries for local teachers are beneath that threshold, as are salaries for food workers and recent college graduates among others. — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salaries
  1. wages
  2. payments
  3. pays
Noun
  • The president has touted billions of dollars in federal investment projects as evidence of prosperity and pointed to rising wages in the manufacturing sector as evidence of an economic turnaround.
    — Amy L. Wong, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Similar disruptions have spread steadily across Bangladesh’s industrial zones since August, driven by sudden factory shutdowns, widespread layoffs and employers’ failure to pay wages and other dues.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of wages
Noun
  • For now, merchants that want to accept agentic payments should be tracking these developments and ensuring their own systems are set up to work with these protocols.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Congress should pass legislation that ensures predictable payments that reflect fair market rates and removes incentives to exploit arbitration while preserving strong protections against surprise bills.
    — Christian Swann, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of payments
Noun
  • GoCardless hires graduates from any discipline but still encourages them to qualify as accountants and pays for the exams.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • This is a limit on the total cost-sharing consumers pay during the year — including co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of pays

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