salary
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Under the proposed scheme, youngsters would be offered posts in the private sector, with the government paying half their salary.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
A Morning Consult survey conducted last November concluded that 79% of avid MLB fans and 69% of casual fans supported a salary cap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
You may not be earning a six-figure salary like that other letter writer, but your outlook is far less bleak than the initial arithmetic suggests.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Paramount released details of Kreiz’s contract on Thursday in a regulatory filing, saying he would receive a $5-million annual salary and an annual target bonus of $4.9 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It was well known that Webster would purchase enslaved people and allow them to work for a salary until they had repaid their purchase price.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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He said his own salary was equal to about four staff salaries, leading him to decide he should leave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Others insisted salaries should be cut during maternity leave.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Supporters say the measure would prevent excessive spending on executive salaries, fundraisers and other administrative expenses at clinics serving the state’s most vulnerable residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The online response inspired her to quit her job and build a digital brand by attacking the workplace taboo of talking about salaries.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
All I do know is that this business about professions and studies and salaries and so on—it makes me sick, it is and always was disgusting.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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