ˌwell-ˈpaid BrE AmE adjective
providing or receiving good wages:
a well-paid job
well-paid executives
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.