Sentence examples for official salary from inspiring English sources
Bought luxury property despite her modest official salary.
According to his official salary, he shouldn't have any money.
This usually amounted to a seventh of the official salary of a teacher.
When in power, Omar Bongo's official salary was reportedly €14,940 to €20,000 a month.
One notable example is Igor Shuvalov, Russia's first deputy PM, whose official salary is £112,000.
Some had asked how the family could afford Bo Guagua's education on a modest official salary.
Since his official salary remained less than $250 a month, the temptation for graft proved irresistible.
It has made it harder to trouser the bribes that have traditionally supplemented those meagre official salaries.
Nigeria's 36 governors earn puny official salaries, but still manage to spend much of their time travelling first-class abroad.
On the other hand, those policemen are no longer on the street, trying to feed heroin and opium addictions that can easily cost triple their official salaries.
It has tried raising some official salaries; corrupt bureaucrats, like the taxman arrested in Moscow this week for soliciting a $1m bribe, are sometimes punished.
