Synonyms 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

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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, lucre, wage, net income, earnings, profits, net, net profit, remuneration

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1. • Regular Payment

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1. salarynoun

   Synonyms:
   stipend, wages, hire, allowance, pay

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1. List of paraphrases for "salary":

   wage, salaries, wages, pay, treatment, remuneration, treatments, payroll, processing, earnings, paycheck, compensation, salary-related

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1. Vinny Jordan:

   Nobody here has had a salary in over a year. I know, it’s crazy, anything worth doing is worth doing.

2. Robert Mann:

   In fact, while saying ‘no layoffs,’ numerous carriers cut hours and related pay. Many others initiated voluntary separation agreements that paid fewer hours and salary dollars over a defined future period in exchange for early retirements or similar.

3. Rezaul Islam:

   It's not fair to kick us out like this, either give us back our job or give us three months' salary.

4. Chuck Wexler:

   Someone who is looking for this because of the salary is the wrong person, they'll realize they are dedicating themselves to the seat of power and doing it at a time when the department is challenged.

5. Donald Trump:

   I'm not going to take the salary. I'm not taking it.