How to Use salary in a Sentence

salary

noun

• Employees receive an annual increase in salary.
• 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
• If someone works for 2 years, i.e. a 30 day notice plus 2 months salary.
  — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
• But several are well past 30 and most play positions at the high end of the tag's salary scale.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• And the money that’s paid for all this, including the CEO salaries, is in subscriptions!
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 2023
• The average salary in the NFL last season: more than $2 million.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 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
• Hill will be making close to $1 million, according to a source with knowledge of the salary.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
• 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
• All workers will also get a one-time cash bonus of 3% of their salary in December.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Poeltl’s salary would fit perfectly into a deal for Grayson Allen.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Wagner was released by Seattle just over a year ago in a salary cap move.
  — Tim Booth, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Raising eyebrows was his nearly $1 million a year in salary, far more than the heads of some larger unions.
  — Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024
• Reese said on social media that her WNBA salary doesn’t cover her monthly $8,000 rent.
  — Danielle Jennings, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
• Other key findings from the survey include: Job hoppers saw a 35% salary increase over the last three years, nearly double that of tenured employees.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024