noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pay/salary scale
▪ As a senior teacher, she has reached the top of her pay scale.
a wage/pay/salary increase
▪ Canadian workers received a 5.4% wage increase.
earn a wage/salary
▪ You are more likely to earn a decent wage if you have a degree.
gross income/salary/pay etc
▪ a family with gross earnings of just £75 per week
pay/wage/salary differential
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27.
▪ Would you add in overtime pay when listing your annual salary?
▪ In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues.
▪ With stock options added to his $ 700, 000 annual salary, McAllister makes more than a million dollars a year.
▪ The prosecutors allege that Mr Estrada amassed more than $ 80m in office, far in excess of his annual salary.
▪ This amount was approximately equivalent to half of their annual salary, depending on age and position held.
▪ In the Federal Government, the starting annual salary for junior accountants and auditors was about $ 18, 700 in 1995.
average
▪ It says it faces problems because it receives money for average rather than actual salaries.
▪ I once had an employer who for three years gave me about half of the average salary raise based on inflation.
▪ In companies with turnover of less than £3m the average salary was £34,724.
▪ But after managers put in 10 to 15 years, the average salary rises to $ 51, 600.
▪ The average salary has decreased, and people are not always paid on time.
▪ In 1913, the average salary for industrial workers was $ 675 a year.
▪ The average salary is only about half that, and most employees have not been paid for months.
▪ Their average starting salary is $ 34, 500.
base
▪ Compensation is made of a base salary and a bonus.
▪ The new contract, which Laws negotiated with the board, also provides additional compensation that is separate from the base salary.
▪ As he would have a police pension he knew he would have a base salary while he set up his new career.
▪ The range is 1.5 percent of base salary for meeting one or two objectives to 5 percent for five or more.
▪ Of these, 97 have base salaries that are smaller than their income from bonuses.
▪ In fact, production employees receive no base salary or hourly wage at all.
▪ It seems reasonable therefore, to use total earnings rather than base salary as the criteria for the pay league.
▪ In some cases, their bonus potential may reach 150 percent of their base salary.
basic
▪ Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
▪ There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.
▪ Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
▪ A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was' entirely his affair.
▪ Managers receive rent-free accommodation and a basic salary.
▪ Expatriates' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary.
big
▪ Directors of subsidiaries of foreign companies received bigger salaries than directors of UK-owned companies.
▪ Trading Miller also means the Sharks dumped another big salary.
▪ He decided to stay and was rewarded in 1984 with the chairmanship - and the big salary.
▪ He gets annual increases but never a big salary jump, which he would if he were promoted.
final
▪ The new £75,000 final salary limit applies to AVCs in the same way as to other earnings.
▪ The Local Government Scheme is a final salary scheme.
▪ Firstly, gains from share options in the final year of employment were no longer allowed in the calculation of final salary.
high
▪ Indeed, many draw very high salaries, run profitable businesses, have satisfied clients, and some become millionaires.
▪ Generally, building inspectors, including plan examiners, earn the highest salaries.
▪ In 1763 the highest orchestral salary went to the premier violon, Le Bel.
▪ Daley promising Wilson as much money as he needed for higher salaries and modern equipment.
▪ The Government wants to legalise payment of higher salaries to non-trade union members.
▪ Jobs in technological fields generally receive higher salaries than jobs in the human services sector.
▪ Banking is the occupation yielding the greatest number of high salaries.
▪ It also spent too much on monthly advertising and hired too may workers at high salaries, analysts said.
large
▪ But many people in the South East who enjoy large salaries also have large fixed debts and overheads.
▪ Loretta wondered whether Puddephat's fellowship provided an unusually large salary, or whether the objects were a relic of his marriage.
low
▪ Put another way, that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than a classless society.
▪ This fact, when combined with low salaries, fosters corruption, he says.
▪ They are paid low salaries and everything is worse for them, they have to face the insults of supervisors.
▪ They were willing to accept low base salaries in the early years of their contracts in exchange for large signing bonuses.
▪ Both the highest and the lowest salaries awarded vary considerably.
▪ Since young workers typically earn lower salaries, their greater numbers would be partially offset by their lower earnings.
▪ We could go out to work, although usually at lower salaries and with lower expectations than men.
▪ Others have been offered jobs on lower grades and salaries or short contracts.
minimum
▪ Baptists began raising a Sustentation Fund in 1908 and set a minimum salary of £160 in 1912.
▪ The minimum salary back then was only $ 45, 000, but I was thrilled to get.
▪ One third of the male workforce, but only one-tenth of the female workforce, earn above the minimum salary.
▪ Both of their contracts are for one year at $ 164, 000, the minimum salary for second-year players.
▪ There were to be increases in civil service wages and in minimum salary levels.
monthly
▪ In constant dollar terms, a teacher with a monthly salary of $ 381 six weeks ago now brings home $ 248.
▪ Petar Beron calculates his monthly salary in loaves of bread.
▪ The part-time worker has the right to a monthly salary proportionally equivalent to that of a corresponding full-time employee.
▪ In future they will be treated like other manual workers and be paid monthly salaries.
▪ Sir Hugh Rossi - more than one quarter of monthly salary?
▪ They put the money into a bank account, out of which they pay themselves a monthly salary.
▪ They do nothing but draw their monthly salaries.
yearly
▪ You should take some time off, even if your yearly salary is what Bill Gates earns in a nanosecond.
■ NOUN
cap
▪ The other was the salary cap.
▪ Because the Bulls were under the salary cap, they were free to make deals other teams could not consider.
▪ The Cowboys are interested in re-signing both players if they can work out more salary cap-friendly deals.
▪ He was released by the team in a move sources said was related more to performance than to salary cap considerations.
▪ More players will be released as teams get down to the $ 67.4 million salary cap before free agency begins Friday.
▪ Neither will the first coach be encumbered by the salary cap.
▪ The salary cap was not in place when Jimmy was riding high in Dallas.
▪ The owners, initially demanding an NBA-like salary cap, shut down the league from the start of the 1994-95 season.
increase
▪ He doesn't believe that extra money motivates, whether that money be a bonus, profit sharing or a salary increase.
▪ As a result, both candidates for governor are considering earmarking some state aid for salary increases.
▪ The decision of the Tribunal is that a salary increase of 1.69% should apply for 12 months from 1st March 1993.
▪ That means we're overdue for a salary increase in many districts.
▪ Also included in the budget was a 103 percent general salary increase for workers.
▪ Few were in the top echelons, and they regularly fell behind their male colleagues in promotions and salary increases.
▪ The level of salary increases has fallen every year since 1990, when they rose 6. 1 %.
▪ The state is also threatening to fine the company and to block salary increases for its managers.
level
▪ There were to be increases in civil service wages and in minimum salary levels.
▪ My boss' excuse is that I am at the maximum salary level.
▪ The survey also asked companies about the salary level of executives recruited via headhunters.
▪ With the current system, the city staff recommends salary levels, and the City Council takes action.
▪ Are the salary levels of those recruited by headhunters likely to go up or come down?
▪ He increased salary levels by 50 percent and began to treat his employees like professionals.
range
▪ What is the salary range of executives recruited? 5.
▪ An employment interviewer reviews these forms and asks the applicant about the type of job sought and salary range desired.
▪ Heads' salaries range from 18,900 to 40,002; deputy heads' from 18,300 to 29,100.
▪ Is this within the salary range I think I need?
scale
▪ The recommended salary scale for bureaux managers is pegged to local authority rates for professional staff.
▪ The salary scale for the post is, currently perannum.
▪ However, Geoffrey is almost at the top of his salary scale and does not want extra commitments.
▪ Staff salary scales were not changed during the year.
▪ There is rapid promotion, normally after 3 years, to the next grade where the salary scale is £15,553 to £23,025.
▪ Our claim for a more just salary scale for Bank Assistants may be down, but it is not out.
▪ The General Synod could consider laying down salary scales for church musicians, as it does in respect of parochial fees.
■ VERB
draw
▪ Edhi and Bilquis draw no salary.
▪ The workers have been drawing their full salaries and benefits during the negotiations, Miller said.
▪ Meanwhile he draws his salary of £63,047 a year - and is worth every penny of it.
▪ Vivian had drawn a handsome salary from the agencies she ran.
▪ They ended with loss-making Continental involvement and directors said to be drawing two lots of salaries and dividends for the same service.
▪ They can draw individual salaries of up to $ 250, 000 a year or more.
▪ They do nothing but draw their monthly salaries.
▪ Unlike the owners of a corporation, sole proprietors and partners do not draw salaries as such.
earn
▪ Now, just for once try and earn that over-inflated salary we pay you.
▪ Generally, building inspectors, including plan examiners, earn the highest salaries.
▪ I earn a 5 figure salary and have three houses.
▪ I, who was earning the only salary in the house and doing all the housekeeping, I should stop bothering him?
▪ You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile, so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result.
▪ Even the core group of 30 who are paid professionals earn salaries unlikely to inspire letters to the editor.
▪ I am 22, but I will not be able to earn my first salary until I reach 24.
include
▪ It will include details of salary, pension and profit-related pay drawn from Lloyd's sources.
▪ The index tracks changes in what companies and governments pay workers, including wages, salaries and benefits.
▪ Extrinsic rewards include wage, salary, bonuses, commission payments, working conditions, a car, pension, etc.
▪ These items should include the salary group classed as permanent, as temporary, or as services secured on a contract basis.
▪ This should be included in a salaries and wages budget of 20% of turnover.
▪ General operating expenses, including salaries and pension contributions, grew 3. 4 percent, to 92. 927 billion pesetas.
▪ Reclaiming this tax involves filling in a tax return, including details of your salary received and the tax deducted.
▪ That money is not included in their salaries, so less tax is paid.
offer
▪ Salary caps are imposed to prevent richer clubs gaining an unfair advantage over poorer rivals by offering players vastly inflated salaries.
▪ And Arsenal were offering an unusually high salary for a football manager - £2,000.
▪ The Huddersfield directors tried to persuade Chapman to stay, even offering him a salary to match Arsenal's.
▪ We offer a competitive salary, together with excellent terms and conditions of employment.
▪ Employers in all fields of endeavour were crying out for them, offering generous salaries along with an array of enticing perks.
▪ We offer an excellent salary and benefits package, including relocation costs.
▪ In return for your skills, we offer salaries as stated, a comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity for career progression.
pay
▪ There is no justification for paying a salary otherwise.
▪ Hourly pay or a salary is the way that the organization tells us that our work is valuable.
▪ So you offer to pay Joanna's salary, and, of course, that would automatically make you her employer.
▪ Thus the taxpayers who pay their salaries have to pay their taxes as well.
▪ Although many officials and newspapers proposed that they be paid a modest salary, only the chief headmen received official remuneration.
▪ The federal government would pay for the salaries and benefits of the new officers.
▪ And anyway, he pays their salaries.
▪ But if your business pays generous salaries to its other employees, your salary will look more reasonable.
provide
▪ Loretta wondered whether Puddephat's fellowship provided an unusually large salary, or whether the objects were a relic of his marriage.
▪ But then, for each division of service, a subjective analysis is provided, e.g. salaries, premises, etc.
raise
▪ The fact is that we have no option but to raise salaries.
▪ The next week Miss Tish raised her salary to ten dollars a week.
▪ Sure I raised his salary, soon as the story got big.
▪ I used the offer to try to get another company I was interested in to raise its salary offer.
▪ The complement had now been raised to 145 and salaries increased by 28 percent.
receive
▪ For instance, in capitalist society, managers, administrators and professionals receive relatively high salaries because of the demand for their services.
▪ In fact, production employees receive no base salary or hourly wage at all.
▪ He received a fixed salary, with an extra fee per execution and half that sum for each felon tortured.
▪ In 6 States, legislators received a daily salary plus an allowance for expenses while legislatures were in session.
▪ Already some state civil servants are receiving their salaries late.
▪ Yesterday, he received his first salary of 600 rupees.
▪ Mr X receives a salary and is provided with a company car which is available for private use.
▪ Jobs in technological fields generally receive higher salaries than jobs in the human services sector.
reduce
▪ Answer guide: Reduce bank and charge salary as an expense.
▪ The begin-ning of real trouble was flunking the bar exam and receiving, in turn, a reduced salary from my firm.
▪ Constructive dismissal includes demoting you, reducing your salary or making you do demeaning chores without actually sacking you.
▪ But streets are filled with frustrated people unemployed or living on reduced and delayed salaries, suffering from late pensions and benefits.
▪ They'd give you low-paying-jobs, reduce your salary or simply dismiss you with no reasons given.
start
▪ Twenty intending solicitors or barristers are being sought immediately for articles or pupillage, at starting salaries of £12,672.
▪ The starting salary was about twenty-five thousand dollars a year plus bonus.
▪ Expatriates' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary.
▪ Many more people were hired to handle the new business, on starting salaries of forty-eight grand.
▪ The joke, of course, was that the real students were currently being head-hunted for posts with starting salaries in excess of 20K.
▪ In many careers, starting salaries are puny but rice precipitously once people get five to 10 years' experience.
▪ Yet the median starting salary for engineering graduates is above the average at Pounds 16,000.
▪ Average starting salaries for graduates with technical degrees have also gotten a boost.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a livable wage/salary
basic salary/pay/pension etc
▪ Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
▪ Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
▪ Graduated pension is increased annually in the same way as the basic pension.
▪ In money terms, the value is about 60 percent of the level of basic pension to which their husband is entitled.
▪ Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
▪ There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.
▪ Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children.
dock sb's wages/pay/salary
pensionable pay/salary etc
▪ For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
▪ The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.
the going rate/price/salary etc
▪ A million pounds is the going rate for an ordinary player in today's inflationary market.
▪ At the going rate of half a million dollars per minute, there is no time for truth.
▪ It typically is charged twice the going rate as the criminal inmates housed in the same facility.
▪ One can of C rations was the going rate.
▪ Or holiday-depending if he's got the brains to get the going rate on betrayal.
▪ State law now prohibits insurers from denying coverage to small businesses or charging them more than 20 percent above the going rate.
▪ What is the going rate for bodies in Cairo, Mr el Zaki?
▪ Who is it that sets the going rate for our work?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He reportedly earns an annual salary of $20 million.
▪ How can they afford that car on Todd's salary?
▪ I joined the company in 1985, on a salary of $22,000 a year.
▪ Johansen reportedly earns an annual salary of $4 million.
▪ Our daughter makes a good salary, but she really works for it.
▪ The university provides a salary of $3,000 a month plus benefits.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A law on salaries which was passed on Dec. 26, 1989, was deemed to be of key importance.
▪ A manager who reaches or exceeds his or her objectives is eligible for either a bonus or a merit increase in salary.
▪ A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was' entirely his affair.
▪ Cuts in salaries, bonuses and overtime payments have reduced many family-incomes and caused a sharp drop in consumer spending.
▪ I, who was earning the only salary in the house and doing all the housekeeping, I should stop bothering him?
▪ The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.
▪ We looked at the corporate-level tax problem in Chapter 4 when we examined salaries, dividends, and loans.
▪ Yet the two presidents occupy the same hierarchical layer, have similar authority, and take home comparable salaries.