salary

noun

ˈsal-rē How to pronounce salary (audio)
Definition of salarynext
as in wage
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services signed a contract for a new job with a salary of $60,000 per year

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Recent Examples of salary The ruling also reflected Sotomayor’s reasoning that owners and players were still bargaining in good faith and that salary policies were mandatory subjects of bargaining. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 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 When the Celtics won the NBA championship in 2024, Stevens noted, Tatum and Brown accounted for 47% of their salary cap, as the former had not yet signed his supermax extension. — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 6 July 2026 Additionally, the Lakers had more than $50 million in salary cap space after LeBron James decided not to return, more than enough capital to retain the 28-year-old frontcourt player while pursuing other players. — Janis Carr, Daily News, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for salary
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  1. wage
  2. pay
  3. payment
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
Noun
  • Advocates say clinics spend too much on executive pay and other administrative costs and not enough on patient care.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • His government also points to shrinking the gender pay gap and boosting support for women’s reproductive health.
    — Chad de Guzman, Time, 6 July 2026
Definition of pay
Noun
  • 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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“Salary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salary. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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