salary
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As FIFA’s president, Infantino earns an annual salary of $6 million, but if reelected, he can serve just one more term, meaning he’d be out of a job in 2031.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
She was earning a good salary but the properties she was hoping for - with a garden and parking space - were too expensive on her own.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Many lower EFL clubs also look to time moves to save on wages, signing someone later in the window meaning they might save weeks' worth of salary payments.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
For months, MLB owners have remained steadfast in their desire to implement a salary cap in collective bargaining this offseason, in part to rein in the Dodgers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
While there, James Hemings was also given a salary, part of which he used to take lessons in French from a tutor.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Monthly operating costs are $27,000 per classroom, including teacher salaries, utilities and insurance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
"Our startups pay a lot of taxes. They create new jobs," she said, adding that Lithuanian startups employed over 20,000 people in total, paying high salaries and attracting foreign investment to the country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Businesses are facing health-benefit costs that are increasing twice as fast as wages and salaries, new data show.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
But the salaries of Adams and his mother, social media spending and travel expenses account for $755,541, or 86%, of the $878,208 allocated to program services.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Given the relatively low salaries of many mathematicians, both failings might be overcome if multimillionaires supported mathematicians who wrote for a popular audience.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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