As was pointed out, $40,000 for the Caribbean's smaller islands would be the equivalent of several years' salary.

Could any 30-second commercial be worth a record $900,000, the equivalent of 30 people's annual salary?

I once had a sinus infection that set me back $357, the equivalent of my weekly salary then.

Mr. Davis was given a $1 million payout, the equivalent of two years' salary.

An artist there can earn the equivalent of a month's salary in a week by copying.

In 1935 John's paternal grandparents died, and his inheritance was about $1900 (the equivalent of a year's salary for a middle class man).

It will be expensive at the equivalent of a month's salary of a teacher or a nurse.

Over a weekend, they can earn the equivalent of a month's salary.

Voting in Peru is obligatory and failure to do so carries a $25 fine, the equivalent of a week's salary for many here.

Thus converted, the "welcome money" amounted to the equivalent of two months' salary in the East.