salaries

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The union had called for the scrapping of a bonus cap set at 50 percent of annual salaries and for 15 percent of operating profit to be allocated to bonuses.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away called the 1990s, young people scraped by with tiny salaries and tried to save for retirement in a newfangled self-directed system.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

UC has said it has offered to increase salaries, give contract ratification bonuses and cap some healthcare premium increases.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Canada reached that 2% milestone by increasing salaries, as well as pledging to buy new equipment, upgrade existing bases and build new infrastructure in the Arctic.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

To get a sense of how daunting that figure was, the value of the Centenary scholarship my aunt won was probably as much as the sum of my grandparents’ annual salaries.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell