Antonyms for Salary
ˈsæl ə risala·ry

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1. salarynoun

   An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   allowance, compensation, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, stipend, wages

Matched Categories

1. • Regular Payment

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1. wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salarynoun

   something that remunerates

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

   Synonyms:
   profit, pay, salary, lucre, wage, net income, earnings, profits, net, net profit, remuneration

How to use Salary in a sentence?

1. Ariane Hegewisch:

   It's much more so in professional jobs than say, if you work as a cashier, you typically do not have to negotiate your salary [ in a low-paying job ]. But in professional work, there is an element of negotiation.

2. Leah Carroll:

   [ Vice's ] contract establishes salary minimums, which have been crucial in bringing those who were underpaid -- including most of our writers, editors, contractors and freelance writers -- up to industry standards, we also were able to secure annual cost-of-living wage increases and standardized job descriptions across the unit.

3. R. W. Johnson:

   His family and lifestyle required far more money than he could ever pay from his salary

4. Michael McCaul:

   We are looking at the terrorist financing aspect to this case. I believe on his salary, he was not able to buy this on his own.

5. Juan Manuel:

   I feel my salary is devalued more and more. On the macro level, these measures seem to me like holding down a person who is already drowning.

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