Salary vs. Wages
Difference Between Salary and Wages
Salarynoun
Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis.
Wagesnoun
A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.
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.
Wagesnoun
wages The price of labor in an economy.
Salaryverb
To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
Wagesnoun
often wages (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense
the wages of sin.Salaryadjective
(obsolete) Saline.
Wagesverb
To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).
Salarynoun
something that remunerates;
wages were paid by checkhe wasted his pay on drinkthey saved a quarter of all their earningsWagesnoun
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 recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing;
the wages of sin is deathvirtue is its own reward
