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salary

[sal-uh-ree] / ˈsæl ə ri /


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Top corporate executives are well rewarded - a report from last year showed that chief executives at the UK's biggest firms are paid, on average, 122 times the salary of the average full-time, UK worker.

From BBC

Rather than working off a percentage of gross salary, I’ve been using our take-home pay as a baseline, since that reflects what we actually spend now.

From MarketWatch

"Hopefully salaries go up -- this inflation is unbearable."

From Barron's

He finds freelance work inconsistent and it doesn’t make up for his past salary.

From The Wall Street Journal

On the other hand, workers in the $100,000 annual salary range have faced a tougher job climate.

From MarketWatch