base pay

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Fleeman will receive an initial base salary of $1.25 million, a $500,000 cash signing bonus and an annual bonus with a target of 150% of his base pay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Amazon’s base pay on average for software engineers and research scientists is less than Meta, OpenAI, Apple and Anthropic, according to market-research firm Levels.fyi.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

In actuality, DoorDash pocketed those tips, adding the funds to the driver's base pay instead of giving them the full tips they earned.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025

By comparison, the public university president with the highest annual base pay is Jay Hartzell at the University of Texas at Austin, who earns $1.4 million, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

Between the base pay of $2.15 an hour and the obligation to share tips with the busboys and dishwashers, we’re averaging only about $7.50 an hour.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich