How to Use starting salary in a Sentence

starting salary

noun
  • His starting salary was about $60,000.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
  • Her starting salary was $85,000/year.
    — Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • No other team can offer him a starting salary above 25% of the cap.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • His starting salary will be $383,111.
    — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 7 June 2026
  • Her starting salary will be $380,000.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Yet starting salary is still treated as the headline metric, and that's a mistake.
    — Rasheem Rooke, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Switching from median starting salary to mean starting salary had no effect.
    — ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The actual starting salary in that field is $78,731.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • Day in, day out, for a grossly underpaid starting salary of $34,400 per year.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Her starting salary with Sunnyvale will be $350,000.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The average starting salary is closer to $56,000.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
  • De León voted last year in favor of the four-year police contract, which also increased officers’ starting salary.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • For decades, a Big Tech career in software engineering promised a stable job and a six-figure starting salary.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Players who have been in the NBA for fewer than seven years can sign for up to 25 percent of the cap in starting salary.
    — Fred Katz, The Athletic, 8 July 2024
  • But the average starting salary for a first-year associate at a major law firm is more than $200,000.
    — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Maybe the student won’t graduate, maybe the post-graduate job market will be lousy, or maybe the graduate will choose a profession with a low starting salary.
    — Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The actual starting salary for a teacher is about $46,500, Clever reports.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • Cleveland holds pick 29 overall, which comes with a starting salary just under $3 million (pending rookie scale usage).
    — Tony East, Forbes.com, 24 June 2026
  • Florida ranks 50th in the nation for average teacher salary, but 19th for starting salary.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Since 2019, the city has increased police starting salary by 34% and increased top-out salary by 42%, Jones said.
    — Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But the actual starting salary for college graduates is closer to $56,000.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • This discrimination could affect whether a woman gets hired at all, what her starting salary will be, whether she’ll be promoted, or if she’s considered for any leadership role.
    — Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 9 July 2024
  • Some metrics—including ones about the average starting salary for teachers and teachers' income growth potential—were assigned a heavier weight.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Her $380,000 starting salary would be $40,000 above what was offered to Martinez.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In an 18-1 vote, board members approved a three-year contract for King with a $380,000 starting salary.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • With a starting salary of $50,558, KCPS teachers come in just above that with little wiggle room.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
  • The Fort Smith Police Department offers a starting salary of just over $50,000 per year.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Like with Brunson, Bridges would be eligible for an extension with a starting salary that is 140 percent of his previous year’s salary.
    — Fred Katz, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
  • The Rogers Police Department offers a starting salary of roughly $59,121 per year.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2025
  • On an individual level, a starting salary is the anchor of the raises an employee makes at a company and potentially throughout their entire career.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026

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