How to Use base pay in a Sentence

base pay

noun

• His base pay for the 1½-hour shift was supposed to be $27.
  — Johana Bhuiyanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• That's $2,000 more than her base pay will be in the WNBA.
  — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• Only the base pay counts against the league’s $4.9-million salary cap.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• Our servers work so hard and their base pay is often low.
  — Heloise, Washington Post, 2 June 2020
• Before the change, those workers earned a base pay rate of $7.09 per hour.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2023
• Not all of the base pay hikes taking effect next month will be large.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
• Tips would be applied on top of the hourly base pay, the company said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• And none of them earned more than $2 million in base pay this season.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• The hotel will be throwing in some money for tips that will add $1 an hour to the base pay.
  — Randy Diamond, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2021
• Nurses also earn time and a half on their base pay over 40 hours a week.
  — Kris Maher, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• Top-scale longshore workers earn a base pay of $39 an hour.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
• This was in addition to his base pay of about $1 million a year.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• The company also said all tips will be added on top of that base pay.
  — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
• Tips are also down, so the restaurant increased base pay to $20 an hour.
  — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• The customers were unruly and often unmasked; the base pay was $5 an hour.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• The long hours nearly tripled his base pay and boosted his pension.
  — Kevin Crowe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2018
• Cooks and cashiers working in the Child Nutrition Program have a base pay of $14.50 per hour.
  — Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
• Districts would then have to use that money at least in part to raise teachers' base pay.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• But that's about half what a McDonald's drive-thru worker makes in a base pay.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2022
• Before the study, base pay for deputy sheriffs topped out at $5,593 per month, according to the board.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Puente said Nirenberg told him his bonus would be worked into his base pay.
  — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Rajeev Misra, who heads the Vision Fund, earned 931 million yen, most of which came as base pay at the unit.
  — Pavel Alpeyev, Fortune, 27 May 2021
• Some people on the full city payroll list of about 2,160 people earned more than their base pay — or close to it — in overtime.
  — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2024
• Chiellini made about $1.6 million in base pay in his two seasons.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• Those who cannot be redeployed will receive 70% of base pay for up to seven weeks.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2020
• Managers who hit all their targets can get bonuses of up to 200% of base pay, the retailer said.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• Employees that choose the latter receive 40% of their base pay.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
• Under current rates, that means tipped workers’ base pay is $11.35 an hour.
  — Kavish Harjai, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
• The filing is accurate — Musk received no base pay during the year.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Aug. 2021
• The analysis includes base pay, bonuses, and stock grants.
  — Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 16 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025