salary
salary Lexical Profile
salary Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A fixed regular payment, typically expressed as an annual sum and paid on a monthly or biweekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.
"She negotiated a higher starting salary before accepting the management position."
• verb
To pay a fixed regular salary to an employee, or to place a position on a salaried basis (chiefly used in the past participle 'salaried').
"The company decided to salary all full-time supervisors rather than paying them by the hour."
Word Nuance & Usage
'Salary' refers to a fixed annual sum paid regularly (typically for professional or white-collar roles) regardless of exact hours worked, whereas 'wage' (or 'wages') typically refers to payment calculated on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis.
• Rhymes for salary
Word Origin & Etymology
From Anglo-Norman 'salarie' and Latin 'salarium', originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance for the purchase of salt (from Latin 'sal', meaning 'salt').