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 Net salaries fell 18% in dollar terms since 2016 and rank 39th of the 69 cities Deutsche Bank tracks, below Madrid. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 19 July 2026 There has been a reduction in the wage budget, too, with big earners Gordon, Tonali and Kieran Trippier replaced by younger players on more modest salaries, including Ewen Jaouen, Sean Steur and Bazoumana Toure. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 July 2026 Many health workers and other frontline workers in Ituri province have also gone on strike over unpaid salaries, further complicating response efforts in what’s been declared the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. — ABC News, 18 July 2026 About 50 workers made about half of their salaries in overtime, with one social worker earning $125,775 in overtime — more than doubling her salary. — Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026 Pay, including wages, salaries and bonuses, like the Council’s Mulgrew $10K checks, must be collectively bargained. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026 The socialists think this is all unfair given the high Wall Street salaries. — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 17 July 2026 Stratton’s campaign reported paying salaries to more than a dozen people, with her main committee spending about $700,000 total. — Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026 Here are some top salaries for doctors in their peak earning years, ages 40 to 55, according to the researchers. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 5 July 2026
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  1. wages
  2. payments
  3. pays
Noun
  • Reasonable people can disagree over whether capital gains should receive preferential tax treatment as against wages, whether the top marginal rate is too high, too low, or merely poorly designed.
    — Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • The group also sought union-standard wages and benefits, as well as changes to working conditions.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026
Definition of wages
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  • Wang, who is pursuing reelection in November, also wants the measure to incentivize larger banks and Wall Street speculators who buy up distressed debts to not seek foreclosure as the first option when borrowers default on payments.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
  • The third round of July Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days.
    — Kiara Moore, The Washington Examiner, 19 July 2026
Definition of payments
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  • There is no Cost Per Mile (CPM), a digital marketing metric that represents the cost an advertiser pays for every 1,000 impressions.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Just to cover the city’s various bond measures, the owner of a home with an assessed value of $1 million pays around $1,145 annually.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
Definition of pays

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