SALARY in a Sentence

Learn SALARY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
81 example sentences for SALARY, such as:
1. My salary is paid directly into my bank.
2. The salary was not to be sniffed at either.
3. The salary I get is not enough for tea and sugar.
4. The company was unable to match his current salary.
5. The only redeeming feature of the job is the salary.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SALARY
salary
 n.  something that remunerates
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Mr. Quinion then formally engaged me to be as useful as I could in the warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby, at a salary, I think, of six shillings a week.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
2  If a clerk wanted his salary raised, Mr. Jorkins wouldn't listen to such a proposition.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
3  There, the devoted postman on that beat delivered bushels of letters for me; and there, at intervals, I laboured through them, like a Home Secretary of State without the salary.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
4  Before I took to seeing after the land, I had a salary of three hundred pounds from the service.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 29
5  All his salary went on household expenses and in payment of petty debts that could not be put off.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
6  The explanation of the position was, in his view, to be found in the fact that his salary was too small.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
7  I assume that a salary is the price paid for a commodity, and it ought to conform with the law of supply and demand.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
8  Petrovsky had run through five millions, and still lived in just the same style, and was even a manager in the financial department with a salary of twenty thousand.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 20
9  I, for instance, genuinely despised my official work and did not openly abuse it simply because I was in it myself and got a salary for it.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
10  With this object I asked for some of my salary in advance, and bought at Tchurkin's a pair of black gloves and a decent hat.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
11  The salary I get is not enough for tea and sugar.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  "A member without salary," repeated Arakcheev.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV
13  The idea of putting something aside out of his salary proved a dream.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
14  She had, though it absorbed most of her salary, an excellent nurse for Hugh.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  He paid her a good salary, but she had few holidays and never got away from her responsibilities.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  The low salary did not dispose him to accept the position.
2  The salary will be fixed according to qualifications and experience.
3  These salary increases will affect only the highest echelons of local government.
4  His monthly salary is paid in the bank by his employer.
5  On top of the basic salary there are numerous other benefits.
6  I had reached the point where I was earning a good salary.
7  You get a big salary incentive and free board and lodging too.
8  The company was unable to match his current salary.
9  My salary is paid directly into my bank.
10  The average salary is correlated with length of education.
11  The salary was not to be sniffed at either.
12  In addition to a competitive salary, the company offers attractive employee benefits.
13  The large salary made their offer even more appealing to him.
14  No-one can be expected to exist on such a low salary.
15  The only redeeming feature of the job is the salary.