undercompensate
Americanverb (used with object)
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“We don’t value care, we don’t compensate family members for care and we undercompensate professionals,” said Marci Alboher, vice president at Encore, a nonprofit that tries to bridge generational divides.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
I certainly don’t mean to say that the stories of low-income Latinos, Latinos in risky, undercompensated jobs, undocumented Latinos aren’t important, or even that criminal Latinos are unimportant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
In a feature called Bills, Bills, Bills, it publishes workers’ anonymous “money diaries”: not just the numbers but the thousand little cuts that come from undercompensated employment.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Ng, he added, was “particularly glad he was going to be paid some money” because he felt the firm had undercompensated him over the years.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
Why would someone headed to college set a goal of getting a job where they will feel undercompensated, unappreciated, stifled and unimportant?
From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2020
That still left Trotz far from the ranks of the league’s highest-paid coaches, and compared to other Stanley Cup-winning coaches, Trotz would have been undercompensated.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2018
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