Sentence examples for miserly salary from inspiring English sources
You start mentally scoping out which single adequate mate would be free to take their space, if it came to it; the deposit money you saved from your miserly salary that would be pissed down the drain if you cancel it altogether.
Under a supposedly friendly new law, they must still recruit workers through state agencies, to which they pay hard currency; the agencies then pay out miserly salaries in pesos.
In his speech, he said he would lift some of the regulations that strangle private enterprise and that he would gradually revalue the Cuban peso, now nearly worthless, to allow people on miserly state salaries to earn a better living.
And while pay for senior civil servants can be generous, other salaries can be equally miserly.
Pay for staffers is miserly — typically around $170 a month.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, even complained about the "fantastic" salaries of the bank's top brass (they are miserly today).
The broadcaster has offered staff a 2.2% salary rise for next year, an increase on the 2% proposal that unions branded "miserly", and contractual improvements including an increase in leave and redundancy terms for longer serving staff.
Phoney currency wars Come on, TTIP Grey squirrels ReprintsWhereas public-sector salaries and benefits for working-age people are set to rise by a miserly 1% a year over the next few years, pensions have been "triple-locked": they increase by average earnings, inflation (currently 2.7%) or 2.5%, whichever is higher.
