base salary

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His yearly base salary as CEO will be $1,250,000 for the first three years on the job, with an available target annual bonus of 190% of that salary, depending on company performance.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

SEW chief executive David Hinton - who earns a base salary of £400,000 and received a £115,000 bonus last year - has faced multiple calls to resign over what happened.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

That increase included an annual base salary raise of 17.5% to $587,500, and 26.7 million in stock awards, up from 4.5 million in stock awards the year before.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 12, 2026

Police officers with this status are entitled to receive 100% of their base salary tax-free for up to a year and then two-thirds afterward if the injury persists.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Everyone is also entitled to performance bonuses that allow them to earn, in certain cases, the equivalent of 100 percent of their base salary.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman