"adequate salaries" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when discussing salaries that are enough to support the cost of living. For example: "Employees should be paid adequate salaries to ensure that their basic needs are met."
Have the correspondents considered how their very adequate salaries are paid?
Andersen Consulting recently announced a package of £10,000 "golden hellos", on top of more than adequate salaries, to attract new staff.
Of course we realize that tips are meant to support salaries of service people, but the employers often use that as an excuse to relieve themselves from the obligation of paying adequate salaries.
In Mr. Sansum's defense, Mr. Aidala said that "the way the corporation operated was that in lieu of adequate salaries to the shareholders, business credit cards were issued and used by the members of the corporation for their own personal expenses".
These Officers shall have fixed and adequate Salaries, and, together with all others holding lucrative Offices, and all Ministers of the Gospel of every Denomination, be incapable of being elected Members of either House of Assembly, or the privy Council.
Government must greatly increase the legal-aid budget, to provide services for all who cannot pay and to attract and retain lawyers by offering adequate salaries and decent workingconditions.
She added that the company's tax affairs are a very different issue from not paying staff an adequate salary.
Mr. Goldston, also in a 2011 deposition, said he felt a small percentage of the estate's assets would be "an adequate salary".
How long before my own job is being done, for a fraction of my scarcely adequate salary, by an Indian in Bangalore?
It also says that the Legislature has denied the judges' constitutional right to an adequate salary, "proportionate to their learning, experience and elevated position," and that it has discriminated against them because most other state employees had seen pay increases.
On Thursday, Judge Kaye filed a lawsuit on behalf of the state's 1,250 judges, charging that the political process has denied them their constitutional right to an "adequate" salary, because the State Legislature has refused to give them a raise for the last decade.
