The phrase "salary fell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a decrease in salary, typically in financial reports or analyses.
Example: "Due to the economic downturn, the company's salary fell significantly over the past year."
Alternatives: "salary decreased" or "salary dropped."
This found her basic salary fell "significantly below the median".
(In Arizona, the average teacher salary fell from fifty-three thousand to forty-seven thousand dollars in that time).
In 2002-04, 86% of new formal jobs paid at most double the minimum salary; the number of jobs paying at least ten times the minimum salary fell by 11%.
For example, in Santa Clara County, home to Palo Alto and Stanford University, the average salary fell to $63,000 in 2002, the most recent year with statistics available, down from $76,300 in 2000, according to the Labor Department.
As their income took another hit — his $50,000 yearly salary fell to $184.75 a week in disability payments — doctors added diabetes to his list of ailments, which also included asthma, hypothyroid disease and three herniated disks.
When her salary fell far short of family needs, she said, her reluctant solution was to add a second job -- moonlighting four nights a week as a youth counselor in one of the center cottages for $10 an hour.
Facebook founder Zuckerberg's base salary falls to $1.
As of now, his salary falls to $123,000 a year from $136,000, and he is to lose $800 a month in pension pay.
He turned down the opportunity to be the first chairman of the board of governors' replacement, the BBC Trust, to take up the challenge at ITV. Grade took a £1m pay cut in 2008 and he is likely to see his salary fall further to around £250,000 when he takes up the role of non-executive chairman.
So if Luongo retires with three years left on his deal (because his salary falls to $1.618 million in the 10th year and then $1 million in the last two years of the deal), the Leafs would get charged that $6.356 million on their cap spread evenly over the remaining three years of his deal".
"My husband will be going to a four-day week so that his salary falls below the cut-off, and I will go out to work that day instead," one mother told them.
