Thesaurus results for PAYCHECK

paycheck

noun

ˈpā-ˌchek

Definition of paycheck

as in salary

the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services almost half of her paycheck goes to child care and transportation expenses

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Recent Examples of paycheck Thousands of San Diego tourism workers on Wednesday saw their paychecks rise thanks to a city ordinance that raised their minimum wage. — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2026 They were just stuck in a paycheck-to-paycheck rut like their neighbors and 29% of American families who qualify as the working poor. — Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 28 June 2026 The report will also provide insight into whether American workers’ paychecks are falling further behind inflation. — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 2 July 2026 The writer-director has been crafting stories of tough-talking guys ever since (with the occasional paycheck diversion into something like the live-action Aladdin). — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for paycheck

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Noun

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

Noun

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

Definition of payment

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