Salary vs. Wages
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.
Wagesnoun
plural of wage. It may take a singular verb. E.g. 'the wages of sin is death' (Romans 6:23 KJV)
Wagesnoun
(in the plural) one's total income for a time period
Wagesnoun
A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.
Wagesnoun
The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration received by capital in its various forms. This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of others.
Wagesnoun
a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing;
