Sentence examples for real raise from inspiring English sources

If the caps rise, Ms. Desai said, "then we won't get a real raise".

But doesn't that productivity deserve to be rewarded by a real raise?

Most federal judges are paid a hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars, and at that point they had not had a real raise in fifteen years.

Their members also have to contend with the rising cost of living and cannot be expected to accept a deal that amounts to no real raise or perhaps a cut, union officials said.

"If this stays on track to get to $9, then workers all over the state are going to get a real raise, and that's a good thing," Mr. Kink said.

By 2012 the average worker in Ottawa County had not had a real raise for four decades and, in fact, is now paid roughly 16 percent less in inflation-adjusted dollars than his or her grandfather in the early 1970s.

Minimum wage is what you get; there are no real raises.

No one would turn down a bonus, but bonuses are not the same as real raises, said Kevin Leicht, a sociologist who studies inequality and class at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

If you want to create jobs in the food supply, let's have real farmers raise real animals, and let's double the number of inspectors, so we can create jobs that protect people, not jobs that kill them.

"Now," he says, "put a pencil in the book and start composing!" If that sounds like a real boggler, raise your hand.

They have sold off and leased real estate, raising many millions of dollars.