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pay raise

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pay raise (plural pay raises)

(US) Standard form of pay rise: an increase in salary or wages.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. Bob Riley

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. Bill Pascrell

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. David Eddings

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise. Robert Duncan

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise. Paul O'Neill

You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you. Stuart Wilde

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