How to Use salary in a Sentence

salary

noun

• Employees receive an annual increase in salary.
• Wagner was released by Seattle just over a year ago in a salary cap move.
  — Tim Booth, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
• Yes, but: Voters have rarely shown a willingness to increase legislators' salaries.
  — Jeremy Duda, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
• Student loan payments can consume a significant portion of a borrower's post-tax salary.
  — Natalie Colley, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The program funds up to half of corps members’ salaries, but requires a portion also be raised through local community fundraising.
  — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar. 2023
• All told, Hausman now is on pace to spend $45 million to elect lawmakers who, in some cases, draw zero salaries for their service.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
• How can a team with salary-cap issues and multiple holes – particularly on the defensive side of the ball – fill those needs when the quarterback is chewing up big portions of the budget?
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• There are still four years and $104 million in base salary to go.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024
• On a cash basis, Nabi took home a salary of $3.5 million.
  — Evan Clark, WWD, 7 Aug. 2024
• Base pay is just part of a worker’s salary at Waffle House.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 June 2024
• Jones and Briere have plenty of help behind the scenes with the salary cap and other business workings of the team.
  — Dan Gelston, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• And the money that’s paid for all this, including the CEO salaries, is in subscriptions!
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 2023
• Staying above the second salary-cap apron could mean that Golden State's bench can’t be shored up that way.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2023
• The two school districts will continue to pay equal shares of Montgomery’s salary.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• Jackson could still want a notable base salary to entice him to sign with a team coming off a 2-15 record.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
• Jacobs’ base salary will be highest for an NFL running back in the 2023 season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• The high prices put area housing out of reach, even for those earning above-average salaries.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The 49ers’ success has brought with it cash and salary cap concerns, one of the byproducts of a talented roster.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• On the other hand, since the start of the pandemic, the salary Americans need to buy a starter home has almost doubled.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2024
• And, under state law, the council and mayor must change their salaries before a new term begins.
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• If an officer spends less than a year, the agency could recoup 100% of the cost of the training up to the officer's first-year salary.
  — Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023
• Starting over under a new name resets the salary structure(*).
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• Travis Kelce may have a jaw-dropping new salary, but he’s still got a ways to go to impress Jimmy Kimmel.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
• Many of them are young men from South Asia, enticed by the prospect of steady employment and higher salaries in Russia.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 10 July 2024
• Behind the scenes, the league has started talks to secure the billions of dollars in media-rights fees that will help pay their huge salaries.
  — Amol Sharma, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• And then things start coming from there — salaries, expansion.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023
• They had been released in salary-cap moves in preparation for the new accounting year.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 6 Apr. 2023
• Her $90 monthly salary is about half that earned by her husband, a public-school teacher.
  — Stephanie Nolen Tiksa Negeri, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Good luck The silver lining for employers: Six-figure salary jobs are hard to come by.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• Cutting Wagner freed up more than $16 million in salary cap space for Seattle, but the split was messy.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024