The phrase "a starting pay of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the initial salary offered for a job position.
Example: "The company offers a starting pay of $50,000 for entry-level positions."
Alternatives: "an initial salary of" or "a base pay of".
For example, a candidate with the GCE "A" level certificate gets a starting pay of SG$1,431.84 per month, while a graduate with a second upper class honour's degree gets SG$2,674.18 per month.
L.A. firefighters currently have an annual starting salary of $59,382, while captains in the department have a starting pay of $107,824, according to city budget officials.
In 2002, hundreds of teaching assistants and teacher aides, 90percentt of them female, had a starting pay of only $6.72 an hour.
She has already received a $2 raise from her starting pay of $13 an hour.
His starting pay of $8.50 an hour was "a pretty good wage for the time".
One upstate provider last year advertised starting pay of $9 an hour while collecting four times that much from the state.
An ad for Baumann & Sons Buses, for example, that was posted on www.lijobfinder.com promised starting pay of $16.35 an hour for school bus drivers and $13 an hour for minivan drivers.
At 13 he won a singing contest sponsored by the "Horn and Hardart Children's Hour," a radio variety show, and he soon became a regular on the Philadelphia radio station WFIL, where his starting pay of 15 cents — the price of two trolley tokens — rose to $18 a week.
Their starting pay of more than 15,000 pesos ($1,175) a month is about double what a normal cop makes.
Most recently, Volkswagen arrived in Chattanooga, Tenn., with 2,000 much-welcomed jobs — but all with starting pay of $14.50 per hour.
"Acpo was concerned about the starting salaries range proposed and the outcome of these negotiations means that chief constables will now have the flexibility to pay a starting salary of up to £22,000 depending on skills and qualifications.
