as in salaries
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
with this recession going on, workers shouldn't be expecting fatter pay envelopes
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The union claimed that the company wants to eliminate more than 100 jobs, cut salaries, and install AI surveillance systems.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026 -
New York and Los Angeles dominate the sport’s biggest earners, with franchises in those cities home to 10 of the 15 highest salaries this year by luxury-tax cap calculations.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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The department eventually helped a hundred and sixty-one workers recover on average roughly three thousand dollars in wages each.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Major concessions packages in the 2010s froze wages and weakened health and retirement benefits.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Citizens are eligible for Social Security payments beginning at 62 years old.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Mar. 2026
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This comes on top of earlier reports of some $364 million in phony SNAP payments under Healey.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Pay envelopes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pay%20envelopes. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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