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. Mike Pompeo:

   Professionalism isn't dependent on position or salary. It's about disagreeing without being uncivil.

2. Lisa Herbold:

   The reductions being considered are from salary savings from officers leaving and do not reduce the number of officers SPD can hire.

3. Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa:

   When there is a difference of 18 percent on average between the salary of men and women, disparity in political positions, and when there is barbarity such as gender violence, it's a sign that there is still much to do in the fight for women's rights.

4. Daniel Crosby:

   It just seems that for most people, the only good salary figure is the one you don’t discuss.

5. 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.