above (one's) paycheck



above (one's) paycheck

Beyond one's level of authority or expertise. I would love to sign off on those documents for you, Jim, but that's above my paycheck. Gina can't decide if we get interns this summer or not—that's above her paycheck!
See also: above, paycheck

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Dorean-English
Mladenka-Croatian, Serbian
GlebGLYEP (Russian), HLEB (Ukrainian)Russian, Ukrainian
Martinho-Portuguese
PÀDraig-Scottish
Timotei-Bulgarian, Romanian