How to Use salary in a Sentence

salary

noun
  • Employees receive an annual increase in salary.
  • The deal could grow to more than $110 million with a rise in the salary cap.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Head coach pay is up in the NFL, but the salaries are still a fraction of what stars make.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 28 Dec. 2024
  • There are still four years and $104 million in base salary to go.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024
  • The team adding those players will be adding $25 million to their salary cap.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 May 2022
  • On a cash basis, Nabi took home a salary of $3.5 million.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The price of each tender also rises with the salary cap each year.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2025
  • But with the salary cap going up just $1 million, there will be changes.
    — Wire Reports, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
  • 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
  • GroundTruth pays half of each reporter’s salary, and helps newsrooms raise enough funds to cover the rest.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
  • If someone works for 2 years, i.e. a 30 day notice plus 2 months salary.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
  • All of which, needless to say, would be far beyond the scope of a government salary.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • 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
  • That’s the kind of story that won’t happen in baseball without a salary cap.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
  • If Rodgers retires or is released, the Jets must eat a $49 million salary cap charge.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The Red Sox haven’t exceeded the luxury tax since 2022, and Buehler’s salary doesn’t put them over the threshold.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 24 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • By August, Biden, Sr.,’s salary was a hundred dollars a week.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 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 | [email protected], al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • In a salary-cap league like the NFL, finding building blocks is essential.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2022
  • 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
  • Forbes also consults news reports and salary databases such as Capology, Over the Cap and Spotrac.
    — Brett Knight, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • This year, salary savings are expected to begin in July.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025

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