Comparison with multiplicative numerals

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In Japan, the heads of companies are discouraged from earning more than fourteen times the salary of their highest-paid workers. In America, in contrast, the company's chief officer can be expected to earn as much as fifty times more than the highest-salaried worker.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]

1. earn fifty times as much as salary of their highest-salaried worker.

I'd like to know what difference of the meaning the underlined phrase has in comparison with #1.
Thank you in advance for your help.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

The sentence 1. is ungrammatical. It should be, for example, one of the following:

"earn fifty times the salary of their highest-salaried worker."

"earn fifty times as much as their highest-salaried worker."

"earn fifty times more than their highest-salaried worker."

Park sang joon · Answer

Thank you, No name one, for your correction.

2. earn fifty times as much as their highest-salaried worker.

Then I'd like to know what difference of the meaning the underlined phrase has in comparison with #2.

Anonymous · Answer

The difference is that 2. means he earns 50 times the salary of the highest-salaried worker, while the underlined sentence means he maximum he earns is 50 times the salary of the highest-salaried worker, that is, he might earn less than 50 times the salary of the highest-salaried worker.

Park sang joon · Answer

Thank you, No Name One, for your continuing support.

Then I'd like to know in my original text if "fifty times" as an adverb modifies the adjective "more."

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