Synonyms:
wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary
Meaning: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"
Usage examples
The second contains the question of salary.
Do this and you will earn a week's salary in one day."
The salary was small, and we still had to practise the closest economy.
Shall I ascertain particulars for you, Constance; touching salary and other matters?"
I, who have no money, sacrifice a lucrative salary, and go back to revive my law practice.
I would give a month's salary to get a look at those letters now; but I neglected to preserve them.
Their salary is an incident of which they think but little, and of which they always affect not to think at all.
Mr Boffin takes Mr John Rokesmith at his word, in postponing to some indefinite period, the consideration of salary.
Fyodor Pavlovitch paid him a salary, almost the whole of which Smerdyakov spent on clothes, pomade, perfumes, and such things.
There was also Hignett, who added to the meagre salary allowed him by the bank by singing comic songs at the minor music halls.