salary

Meaning

Noun

A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.

Verb

To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.

Adj

Saline.

Synonyms

pay

💸

wage

wages

stipend

remuneration

emolument

earnings

fee

payment

💸

hire

allowance

compensation

reward

income

honorarium

pension

payoff

price

prize

profit

redeem

refund

rent

screw

services

sheath

status

sugar

supply

treatment

wage earner

when

salaryman

fuel and water

retainer’s stipend

official pay

give money

monthly wage

allowance Stipend

gross pay

pittance payment

award

charge

content

cooking

cost

emoluments

expense

fare

gift

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Translations

Gehalt

salaire

salario

salario

💸

sueldo

salaris

Lohn

stipendio

paga

💸

salário

salari

loon

sou

traitement

maaş

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsæl.ə.ɹi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: salarie

In summary

From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because, supposedly, Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for either of these claims from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.