American English pronunciation

How to pronounce salary

IPA transcription: ['sælɚi]

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Noun

  • something that remunerates

    “wages were paid by check”

    “he wasted his pay on drink”

    “they saved a quarter of all their earnings”

Usage examples

  • The salary for the employees in the initial months were paid by some parents.
  • We think that our products are still too expensive and worker's salary too low.
  • Comstock derived his full-time salary from the vice society.
  • Rose's salary kept the family financially solvent until she died of cancer.
  • The stipend is roughly equal to a local teacher's salary.
  • Selectmen almost always serve part-time, with a token or no salary.
  • That was Sheen's annual salary for the show he was eventually fired from.
  • He no longer receives a salary, but receives income from investments.
  • The fee paid to the worker's company would then be taxed as a salary.
  • She insisted on a salary increase, and got it.