well-paid

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ˌwell-ˈpaid adjective  BEWPAY somebody FOR WORKproviding or receiving good wages 薪金优厚的，高薪的 a well-paid job 高薪工作 well-paid executives 薪金丰厚的主管► see thesaurus at earn

Examples from the Corpus

well-paid• She's a very competent, well-paid housekeeper.• For another it might be a school whose graduates get well-paid jobs.• This is largely because the upper-middle-class educated sector has sold out to the development industry, which provides relatively well-paid jobs.• The result was that what had been a small-sized cheap labour force became a large well-paid labour force.• well-paid managers• But the bureaucratic tendency to expand has generated a stepladder of well-paid officials.• Milosevic has deployed his well-armed and well-paid police to harass the daily protesters.• In his view, it was true that the in-house collection manager was generally dedicated, well-trained, well-paid, well-motivated.• The unions claim that contented, well-paid workers are an essential ingredient of productivity, and so they are.

ˌwell-ˈpaid adjectiveChineseSyllable  

providing wages receiving or good Corpus

well-paid
ˌwell-ˈpaid adjective
providing or receiving good wages:
    a well-paid job
    well-paid executives
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ earn to be paid a particular amount of money for your work. Earn is more formal than get or make: A newly-qualified teacher can expect to earn about £20,000 a year.
   ▪ get to earn a particular amount of money every hour, week etc: How much do you get an hour? | She gets more than I do.
   ▪ make to earn money, especially a lot of money, or money that is not from regular employment: You can make a lot of money in banking. | Jo makes a bit of extra money by selling his paintings.
   ▪ be on something British English to earn a particular amount of money each year. This is the most common way of talking about someone’s salary in British English: How much are you on? | Some chief executives are on huge salaries.
   ▪ be/get paid to receive money for work that you do for an employer, not by working for yourself: Workers are paid around $500 a month. | I get paid monthly.
   ▪ well-paid/badly-paid paid a lot of money/not much money for the work that you do: well-paid lawyers working in the city | It was boring badly-paid work.
   ▪ take home to earn a particular amount of money after tax etc has been taken away from your pay: After tax and other deductions, I only take home £200 a week.