En Dash in Monetary Range

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PunctuationCrazed

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The Chicago Manual of Style lists "$3–$5 million" for a range.

If we go a step further, would the following work?

a $3–$5 million a year contract
a $50–$100 million per year industry

I don't think "million" needs to be used twice in these phrases, e.g., a $3 million –$5 million a year contract, because I don't think anybody in this world would interpret $3 to mean "three dollars" in the first example, or $50 to mean "fifty dollars" in the second example. Agreed?

So are my two original examples above punctuated correctly?

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Hello PunctuationCrazed, and welcome to the forum. :)
Agreed!
 

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Would a hyphen work better than an end dash? Your thoughts....your preference here.

a $3-$5 million a year contract
a $50-$100 million per year industry

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