Salary meaning in English
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Definition
a (five-figure) salary: earnings, pay, wages (amounting to five figures)
(a) salaried (employee): (an employee) who earns a set amount per year (rather than being paid by the hour)
Examples
- "With a lovely head like yours, I mean with your unique skills and experience, you could be earning a seven-figure salary!"
- "I was hoping we could, uhhm, discuss my salary."
- "Janine : This payment is based on your salary and, in general, is about 50 per cent of your weekly earnings."
- "I'm afraid the 401(k) plans are reserved for full-time, salaried employees."
- "Salary: 30-35K, based on experience"
- "We need to get together to talk about my salary."
- "You've been contributing 6% of your salary to this pension plan since you arrived at Delavigne."
- "Salaries and rent prices are reasonable and the corporate taxes are a lot lower than in Australia."
- "Furthermore, why is someone with your salary salvaging abandoned bikes out of trash cans?"
- "I'm going to tell the accounts department to go ahead and give you some of next month's salary."
- "And in Bolivia, you may even be denied access to your salary if you don't vote in an election!"
- "Your decision to terminate Mrs. Hughes will cost this company 2 months of salary in addition to a generous severance package."
- "Brent : So you're telling me that I could be sitting at home all day, and I'll receive half my salary?"
- "I suggest that it be deducted from your salary in monthly installments of 300 dollars for the next four months."
- "You can take 3 to 4 weeks' paid maternity leave in the time leading up to the birth (paid at 55-60% your normal salary)."
- "I can't smell, my grandfather died in a perfume explosion, and then I was a little busy creating this multinational perfume company that pays your salaries, okay?"
- "Is "boy" a salaried position?"
- "Salary: 40-45K, based on experience"
- "Last year, we approved a salary increase, a pension fund, a new health plan with the best HMO in California and even spousal benefits!"
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