Thesaurus results for PAY ENVELOPE

pay envelope

noun

Definition of pay envelope

as in salary

the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services with this recession going on, workers shouldn't be expecting fatter pay envelopes

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Recent Examples of pay envelope Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope. — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019 Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021

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No one expects Moreno to spend like the Dodgers do (and even Walter’s fellow owners want a salary cap in an attempt to stop the Dodgers).

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
That adds up to just $15,080 a year, based on a standard 40-hour workweek—less than a third of the average American’s salary of around $60,000 yearly.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 July 2026

Definition of salary

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Over the past decade, home prices have risen much faster than wages.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 July 2026
For this calculation, the institutional research department compared UC graduates’ earnings to out-of-pocket costs for their degrees and the opportunity costs of forgone wages of high school graduates of the same age.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of wage

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Anderson has since remarried and currently works as chief of staff for corporate development at payment technology company Celero Commerce.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
These businesses live or die by people answering phones, booking jobs, chasing payments and calming down upset customers.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

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