Salary cap,

Definition of Salary cap:

1. The limit placed on a salary paid out to employees set and enforced by the government or another organization.

How to use Salary cap in a sentence?

1. I thought that if we traded for that player then we would go over the salary cap , which would not be good for us in the future.
2. When I started my new job with the state I wanted to get paid $80,000 per year, but the state legislature placed a salary cap on all new hires and my yearly salary was only $75,000.
3. You need to know if there is a salary cap for your line of work so that you know the max you could ever make.