Example sentences for: white-collar

How can you use “white-collar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to The Conference Board, an independent business management organization funded by the Sloan Foundation to survey PSM alumni, by 2002, 91% of the first PSM graduates had obtained full-time positions within their field despite a white-collar recession, two-thirds with salaries of $50,000 or more.

  • Thus the piece mentions that the typical white-collar federal workers who will receive the bulk of the raises earn over $44,000 but doesn't note that the average salary in this country is far, far less; 2) it doesn't mention the real cost of federal raises.

  • The new rule: Ordinary white-collar work in a household is not covered, but hazardous manufacturing work there is.

  • Jackson and others spotted in the early 1980s that there were no white-collar minority employees in lots of major companies, and no black franchises in major franchise businesses.

  • In the business and finance news box of the Wall Street Journal , there's word (credited to yesterday's Detroit News ) that in a move to retain white-collar employees, Chrysler is offering 15,000 nonunion salaried workers a grant of $4,000 for family-related expenses like elder care and children's college tuition.


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