Salary vs. Wage

Salarynoun

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.

Salaryverb

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

Salaryadjective

(obsolete) Saline.

Salaryadjective

Saline

Salarynoun

The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.

Salaryverb

To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

Salarynoun

something that remunerates;

Salarynoun

a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker

Salaryverb

pay a salary to

Salary

A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which may be specified in an employment contract. It is contrasted with piece wages, where each job, hour or other unit is paid separately, rather than on a periodic basis.

Wagenoun

An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

Wageverb

To wager, bet.

Wageverb

To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

Wageverb

To employ for wages; to hire.

Wageverb

(transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).

Wageverb

(transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

Wageverb

To give security for the performance of.

Wageverb

To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

Wageverb

To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

Wageverb

To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.

Wageverb

To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

Wageverb

To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.

Wageverb

To give security for the performance of.

Wageverb

To bind one's self; to engage.

Wagenoun

That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

Wagenoun

That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; - at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

Wagenoun

something that remunerates;

Wageverb

as of wars, battles, or campaigns;

Wage

A wage is the distribution from an employer of a security (expected return or profits derived solely from others) paid to an employee. Like interest is paid out to an investor on his investments, a wage is paid (from company earnings) to the employee on the employee's invested assets (time, money, labor, resources, and thought).