Sentence examples for mere salary from inspiring English sources

The educators have a greater goal than a mere salary increase: the future of their public-school district and of public schools nationwide.

The 60 Minutes piece reported that the EEOC investigation has expanded beyond mere salary to other issues, which is good news for anyone seeking a thorough examination but possibly bad news for anyone hoping to speed this process along.

But it would appear many of Rocket's staff have seen the management do extremely well out of the exits of Rockets clones while they've been left with a mere salary.

Here is a book in which a man can be wild with indignation over a mere $575,000 salary, and in which Barry feels as if he could blow a year's worth of his Colorado income in a New York minute.

Company leader Nicholas Gerber, 39, took home a mere $75,000 salary in 2001, a pittance compared to the average fund manager's $400,000.

Citigroup's chief executive, Vikram S. Pandit, after nearly two years of earning a mere $1 in salary while he tried put the bank back on track, has been awarded a $1.75 million salary, according to a regulatory filing on Friday.

Mr. Kaplan says he passed that test by taking a mere $50,000 annual salary at first as the chief executive of Flip's maker, Pure Digital Technologies.

For monster franchise films, box-office receipts may soon resemble Michael Jordan's salary, mere frosting on a cake of spinoffs and tie-ins.

To get them to accept performance-related pay, the government let GPs give up out-of-hours care for their patients in exchange for a mere £6,000-a-year salary cut.

Frugal to a fault, Buffett lives modestly and takes a mere six-figure salary from Berkshire Hathaway.

Lastly, a mere increase in salary would not automatically reinstate the sense of purpose that is required to make public services function: as such it would not be enough to make moonlighting disappear spontaneously [ 119, 120].