base pay
noun
: a rate or amount of pay for a standard work period, job, or position exclusive of additional payments or allowances
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Employees that choose the latter receive 40% of their base pay.
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Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
Employees’ total compensation, which includes benefits, is now about 1.8 times their base pay and averages about $220,000 per worker per year.
—Tim Gardner, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
Under current rates, that means tipped workers’ base pay is $11.35 an hour.
—Kavish Harjai, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Andrew Hamilton at New York University tops the list of private university presidents with an annual base pay of $3.3 million.
—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
Employees’ total compensation, which includes benefits, is now about 1.8 times their base pay and averages about $220,000 per worker per year.
—Tim Gardner, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
Under current rates, that means tipped workers’ base pay is $11.35 an hour.
—Kavish Harjai, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Andrew Hamilton at New York University tops the list of private university presidents with an annual base pay of $3.3 million.
—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Base pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/base%20pay. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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