American English pronunciation
How to pronounce salary
IPA transcription: ['sælɚi]
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Noun
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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.