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base pay

noun

  1. pay received for a given work period, as an hour or week, but not including additional pay, as for overtime work.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of base pay1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

Top-scale longshoremen earn a base pay of $39 an hour.

Top-scale longshoremen earn a base pay of $39 an hour.

By comparison, the public university president with the highest annual base pay is Jay Hartzell at the University of Texas at Austin, who earns $1.4 million, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Regents also approved salary adjustments for six senior UC leaders, including a 25.3% boost for UC President Michael V. Drake to bring his annual base pay to $1.3 million.

Andrew Hamilton at New York University tops the list of private university presidents with an annual base pay of $3.3 million.

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