Salary

Definition: Salary

Salary

Noun

1. Something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "salary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Labor

Law

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Salary

Payment

Salary, compensation, remuneration (reward).

Reward

Allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage.

Crosswords: Salary

Mr. White, I was wondering if you could arrange for half my salary to be sent to this address on a weekly basis. (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

I love it. New office, new salary, I'm the new Wilhelm. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

We're just going to garnish your salary. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You want a job? I got a job for you. Fix up this pigsty! You get a pretty Goddammed good salary for testing out this bed all day! You want an extra fifty dollars a week, try vacuuming! (Carnal Knowledge; writing credit: Jules Feiffer)

Now you listen to me, cop, I pay your salary! (Dragnet; writing credit: Richard L. Breen; Harry Essex)

Good Salary - Prospects - Free Coffin (1975)

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Books

• The Smart Woman's Guide to Interviewing and Salary Negotiation, Third Edition (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Annual Salary Review (reference)

• Home Care Salary & Benefits Report (reference)

• Iomas Report On Salary Surveys (reference)

• Prsa Salary Survey (reference)

• Psmj Executive Management Salary Survey (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The members of the Governing Commission will be entitled to a salary which will be fixed by the Council of the League of Nations, and charged on the local revenues. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

M. Myriel received from the government as bishop a salary of fifteen thousand francs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Doctors in public clinics receive around 50-70 USD monthly salary. (references)

In practice, however only a small number of workers with high technical skills can negotiate effectively on salary and fringe benefits. (references)

In a study by the National Census Board (INDEC), statistics reveal that almost 10 percent of an Argentine's salary is dedicated to medical products and services. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

On the one hand, the law provides incentives for small firms to hire persons with disabilities; for example, the Bureau of Labor pays the first year's salary of a disabled employee. (references)

Hungary

A 1997 decree requires all companies that employ more than 20 persons to reserve 5 percent of their jobs for persons with physical or mental disabilities, with fines of up to 75 percent of the average monthly salary for noncompliance. (references)

Taiwan

Organizations failing to do so must pay, for each person with disabilities not hired, the basic monthly salary (approximately $570 (NT$18,880)) into the Disabled Welfare Fund, which supports institutions involved in welfare for persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burma

The bribes for passports are sometimes as high as $3,000 (approximately 1.2 million Kyat), the equivalent of 10 years' salary for the average citizen. (references)

Congo

On September 13, RCD/Goma troops opened fire on demonstrators in Bukavu who were protesting the RCD rebel movement's refusal to allow the Government to pay salary arrears to Congolese civil servants in the rebel-held areas. (references)

Cuba

These government fees for medical exam, passport, and exit visa--which must be paid in dollars--are equivalent to about 5 years of a professional person's accumulated peso salary and represent a significant hardship, particularly for political refugees who usually are marginalized and have no income. (references)

Economic History

Andorra

They receive an annual salary. (references)

Romania

Steep salary taxes may also generate problems. (references)

China

Workers are paid a salary, hourly wages, or piece-work wages. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

Voluntary police do not receive a salary from the state, and do not receive any professional training. (references)

Panama

Despite a recent raise, district court judges still make less than half the salary of their immediate superiors. (references)

Moldova

The majority of the cases concerned the lack of social protection, and salary and pension arrears accumulated by the Government. (references)

Minorities

Estonia

Some noncitizen residents, especially ethnic Russians, continued to allege job, salary, and housing discrimination because of Estonian language requirements. (references)

Ukraine

Evangelical Christian missionaries reported some instances of societal discrimination against members of their churches, such as public criticism for betraying "native religions," although there were no reports of salary cuts or layoffs as reported in the previous year. (references)

Brazil

A researcher from IPEA also affirmed that women of African descent suffer more discrimination in the work place, citing statistics that, nationwide, white men have an average monthly salary of $269 (726 reais), white women $212 (573 reais), Afro-Brazilian men $125 (337 reais), and Afro-Brazilian women $107 (289 reais). (references)

Political Economy

BELGIUM

Tax policies: The top marginal rate on wage and salary income is 55 percent. (references)

HAITI

Direct taxes on salary and wages represent only about 25 percent of receipts. (references)

Finland

Around 95 percent of Finnish wage and salary earners came under the agreement. (references)

Travel

Chad

A thirteenth month salary bonus is also paid in December. (references)

Saudi Arabia

From base salary and housing, companies withhold five percent and pay 10 percent. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Beyond the SMIG, there is a scale of monthly base salary for certain occupational categories. (references)

Women

Brazil

Afro-Brazilian women earned on average 26 percent of a white male's salary. (references)

Gambia

Employment in the formal sector is open to women at the same salary rates as men. (references)

Belgium

The net average salary for a woman is 84 percent of the national net average salary. (references)

Worker Rights

Syria

However, the law applies only to children who work for a salary. (references)

Central African Republic

The Government agreed to make regular salary payments during the year. (references)

Zambia

The strikes were settled when workers were awarded nominal salary increases. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "salary": annual salary ♦ back salary ♦ base salary ♦ basic salary ♦ commencing salary ♦ dock smb.'s salary ♦ draw a fixed salary ♦ draw a good salary ♦ earn a good salary ♦ expected salary ♦ final pensionable salary ♦ gross salary ♦ high salary ♦ misuse of salary deductions ♦ nominal salary ♦ pension salary ♦ pensionable salary ♦ rise in salary ♦ salary cut ♦ salary deduction ♦ salary earner ♦ salary increase ♦ salary package ♦ salary range ♦ salary scale ♦ salary statement ♦ starting salary ♦ tax withheld from salary. Additional references.

Beginning with "salary": salary-earners, salary-earning, salary-in, salary-linked, salary-ranges, salary-related.

Ending with "salary": big-salary, final-salary, non-salary.

Afrikaan

salaris (wage, wages). (various references)

Albanian

rrogë (earnings, emolument, gainings, living wage, pay, wage, wages), pagesë (carfare, charge, compensation, consideration, cost, fare, fee, honorarium, pay, payment, quittance, remuneration, wage), pagë (earnings, emolument, gainings, pay, prebend, screw, stipend, wage), fitim (benefit, earnings, gain, gainings, income, makings, payoff, percentage, profit, return, spoil, victory, wages). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معاش (livelihood, pay, pension, stipend, wages), ‏مرتب (earning, in order, orderly, regular, stipend, trim, well arranged, well ordered), ‏راتب (pay, screw, stipend, wages). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заплата (earnings, emolument, pay, paycheck, remuneration, screw, stipend, wage), плащам заплата на. (various references)

Chinese 

薪金 (Salaries), 薪水 (wage), 薪 (fuel), 待遇 (pay, status, treatment, wages), 工錢 (wages), 俸 . (various references)

Czech

služné (wage, wages), výplata (pay, payment, payoff, wage packet), pevný plat. (various references)

Danish

løn (maple, maple-tree, pay, remuneration, wage, wages), gage (wage, wages). (various references)

Dutch

salaris (wage, wages), loon (compensation, pay, remuneration, reward, wage, wages), gage (wage, wages), bezoldiging (pay, remuneration, wage, wages). (various references)

Esperanto

salajro (wage, wages). (various references)

Faeroese

løn (wage, wages). (various references)

Farsi 

مواجب (Emolument, Stipend), حقوق دادن , حقوق (Due, Emolument, Law, Pension, Stipend), شهریه . (various references)

Finnish

palkka (earnings, pay, payment, reward, wage, wages). (various references)

French

salaire, traitement, appointements. (various references)

Frisian

lean (wage, wages), gaazje (wage, wages), fertsjinst (gain, profit, wage, wages). (various references)

German

Gehalt (bulk, concentration, content, dimension, extend, pay, remuneration, Sal, salary package, size, stipend, substance, wage, wages), Gage (fee, wage, wages), Besoldung (remuneration). (various references)

Greek 

μισθός (wage, wages). (various references)

Hebrew 

משכורת (fee, pay, reward, wage, wages), שכר (earnings, fare, fee, pay, payment, profit, remuneration, reward, wage). (various references)

Hungarian

fizetés (earnings, emoluments, exhibition, fee, hire, improver, military pay, pay, payment, stipend, wage). (various references)

Icelandic

laun (wage, wages). (various references)

Indonesian

gaji (pay, wage). (various references)

Italian

salario (hire, pay, remuneration, wage, wages), stipendio (earnings, pay, remuneration, wage, wages), paga (fee, pay, price, wage, wages, you pay). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薪水 (cooking, fuel and water), 俸給 (pay). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうりょう (hill, old fief, suspension of fishing, wages), し�"すい (adoration, cooking, flood, fuel and water, inundation, launching), ほうきゅう (pay), ほうろく (baking pan, official pay, parching pan, pay, retainer's stipend), ほう (Act, cannon, divide, emulate, follow, gun, imitate, information, male phoenix bird, punishment, retribution, side), サラリー . (various references)

Korean 

급료 (grade, Salaries). (various references)

Malay

salaris (wage, wages), gaji (wage, wages). (various references)

Manx

faill (board, fare, fee, hire, pay, stipend, wages). (various references)

Papiamen

sueldo (wage, wages), salario (wage, wages), ganamentu (wage, wages). (various references)

Pig Latin

alarysay.(various references)

Portuguese

salário (earphone, fee, hire, income, mal-, pay, stipend, wage, wages), remunerações (remuneration), ordenado (income tax, orderly, pay, tidy, wage, wages). (various references)

Romanian

salarizare (pay, wages), salariu (earnings, hire, pay packet, stipend, wage), retribuţie (distribution, pay off, remuneration, retribution), leafã (screw, wage, wages). (various references)

Russian 

жалованье (pay). (various references)

Scottish

tuarasdal (fee, reward, wages). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zarada (earnings, gainings, profit, return), plata (fee, pay, payday, remuneration, screw, stipend, wage, wages). (various references)

Spanish

salario (gainings, hire, pay, remuneration, wage, wages), sueldo (earnings, income, pay, screw, stipend, wage). (various references)

Swahili

mshahara (wage, wages). (various references)

Swedish

lön (emolument, hire, pay, repayment, reward, screw, stipend, wage, wages), avlöning (pay, remuneration, wage, wages). (various references)

Thai

เงินเ�"ือน. (various references)

Turkish

maax (wage, wages), maaş vermek, maaş (compensation, earnings, emolument, pay, stipend, wage), aylık bağlamak, aylık (mensal, monthly, stipend), ücret (charge, dues, earnings, emolument, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, rate, remuneration, stipend, terms, wage, wage rate, wages). (various references)

Turkmen 

aяlyk (monthly). (various references)

Ukranian 

оклад, платня (appointment, pay, stipend), платити платню. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiền lương. (various references)

æs, mercede, mercedem, mercedes, mercedibus, mercedis, merces, salarium. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "salary": salarying, salaryman, salarymen. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Salary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asgarby, Aslaby, calary, Daldry, galary, Saclay, safary, Salamy, salar, Salari, Salarino, Salario, salarye, salery, salgari, salire, sallary, Sallay, sallery, Salor, Salorio, saltry, salwars, Sawairi, Selaby, Selerie, sellary, shalary, shalwar, Silar, silery, Sillar, Sillari, siloxy, Sleary, solari. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alary, aryls, asyla, rayas.

-2 letters: aals, alar, alas, aryl, lars, lays, raya, rays, ryas, slay.

-3 letters: aal, aas, ala, als, ars, ays, lar, las, lay, ras, ray, rya, sal, say, sly, yar.

-4 letters: aa, al, ar, as, ay, la, ya.

+1 letter: astylar, parlays.

+2 letters: airplays, allayers, analyser, arrayals, astrally, basilary, crayolas, graylags, halyards, lamasery, lanyards, palmyras, paralyse, railways, rascally, salivary, salutary.

+3 letters: acrylates, amaryllis, analysers, analyzers, ballyrags, bastardly, betrayals, calyptras, carbamyls, carbaryls, carryalls, claywares, coalyards, crawlways, dastardly, defrayals, graymails, haulyards, kailyards, kaleyards, kalyptras, laryngals, layerages, malarkeys, manslayer, marshalcy, paralysed, paralyses, paralysis, paralyzes, phrasally, rascality, salarying, salaryman, salarymen, saltatory, syllabary, waylayers, yardlands.

+4 letters: abrasively, abstractly, aneurysmal, ankylosaur, catalyzers, cycloramas, escalatory, fairylands, jaywalkers, laryngeals, manslayers, measurably, myrobalans, paralysing, paralytics, paralyzers, paramylums, paroxysmal, partisanly, pastorally, playmakers, pleasantry, portrayals, reanalyses, reanalysis, reanalyzes, reasonably, salutarily, salutatory, sanitarily, separately, slavocracy, stalwartly, standardly.

+5 letters: acrylamides, amaryllises, ambrosially, ancestrally, ankylosaurs, antislavery, ballplayers, barbarously, cadastrally, carboxylase, cardplayers, craftsmanly, disparately, drastically, erasability, hazardously, hyperplasia, inseparably, laparoscopy, magistrally, mayoralties, phalanstery, pleasurably, prosaically, rapaciously, sartorially, satirically, subaerially, syllabaries, tracklayers, translatory, treasonably, vagariously, vascularity.

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