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. Judge Judy Sheindlin:

   The fact that Richard Lawrence is complaining about my salary is actually hilarious, i met Mr. Lawrence for 2 hours some 21years ago. Neither I nor anyone involved in the day-to-day production of my program has heard from him in 20 years. Not a card, not a gift, not a flower, not a congratulations. Yet he has somehow received over $17,000,000 from my program. My rudimentary math translates that into $8,500,000 an hour for Mr. Lawrence. Not a bad payday. Now complaining about not getting enough money, that’s real chutzpah!

2. Yehiya Taleb:

   My salary cant cover my demands. With installments, you can cover a little part of them.

3. Probarb:

   Allowances cut from their salary will be recovered indirectly by them from the public's pocket only so they will not lose anything.

4. Mohamed El Harari:

   The field's security guards are on strike because they complain about a delay of their salary payments, nOC paid the salaries to the security forces, but they haven't paid the guards yet.

5. Fumiko Kasai:

   At first I saw nothing strange about a housewife doing a low-paid part-time job, but no matter how hard I worked, my salary would not rise much even as I bear the responsibility as a team leader. I don't want employers to treat temporary workers as cheap labor force for the sake of cutting personnel costs.