salarysal‧a‧ry /ˈsæləri/ ●●● S2 W3 noun (plural salaries) [countable, uncountable] 
The average salary for a teacher is $39,000 a year.COLLOCATIONSverbsearn/get/receive a salary· She’s now earning a good salary as an interpreter.be on a salary British English (=be earning a salary)· He won’t tell me what salary he’s on.command a salary formal (=be able to get a particular salary)· Which graduates command the highest salaries?pay somebody a salary· Large companies often pay better salaries.offer somebody a salary· We offer competitive salaries to graduates.increase somebody’s salary· His salary was increased to £80,000 a year.cut somebody’s salary (=reduce someone’s salary)· They will cut salaries before they cut jobs.adjectiveshigh/good· She moved to a job with a higher salary.low· It sounds an interesting job, but the salary is too low.a six-figure salary (=one over £100,000 or $100,000)· He’s now a top executive with a six-figure salary.annual salary· His annual salary is $200,000.monthly salary· What's your monthly salary?current salary· His current salary is just over £30,000 a year.basic/base salary (=the basic amount that someone is paid)· You get a basic salary, and then other benefits on top.starting salary (=the salary someone gets when they start a job)· The starting salary for a hotel manager is $26,400.final salary· Your pension is based on a proportion of your final salary.salary + NOUNa salary increase· He was given a huge salary increase.a salary cut (=a decrease in someone’s salary)· The workforce agreed to take salary cuts.the salary scale/structure (=the list of increasing salaries that someone in a job can earn)· He is almost at the top of his salary scale.phrasesa drop/cut in salary (=a reduction in salary)· He couldn’t afford to take a drop in salary.an increase/rise in salary· They were offered a 10% increase in salary.THESAURUSsalary noun [countable] the money that you receive regularly for doing your job, usually paid to you every month. Salary is usually used for professional jobs such as teachers, managers, doctors etc: · Nurses earn a basic salary of £21,250.· Her salary is paid directly into her bank account.pay noun [uncountable] the money you receive for doing a job: · The pay is pretty good.· Teachers are asking for higher pay.wages noun [plural] (also wage [singular]) the money that someone is paid every week by their employer, especially someone who works in a shop or factory: · Practically all my wages go on housing and transport to work.· The average weekly wage was £350.· a wage increaseincome noun [countable, uncountable] the money that you receive regularly for doing your job, and from things such as a business or investments: · The amount of tax you have to pay depends on your income.· People on low incomes are finding it difficult to pay their fuel bills.earnings noun [plural] the total amount of money you earn from any job you do – used especially when the amount is different each month or year: · The average worker’s earnings have not kept up with inflation.
WORD ORIGINsalary
Origin:
1200-1300 Latin salarium ‘money to pay for salt’, from sal ‘salt’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He reportedly earns an annual salary of $20 million.
- How can they afford that car on Todd's salary?
- I joined the company in 1985, on a salary of $22,000 a year.
- Johansen reportedly earns an annual salary of $4 million.
- Our daughter makes a good salary, but she really works for it.
- The university provides a salary of $3,000 a month plus benefits.
- A law on salaries which was passed on Dec. 26, 1989, was deemed to be of key importance.
- A manager who reaches or exceeds his or her objectives is eligible for either a bonus or a merit increase in salary.
- A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was' entirely his affair.
- Cuts in salaries, bonuses and overtime payments have reduced many family-incomes and caused a sharp drop in consumer spending.
- I, who was earning the only salary in the house and doing all the housekeeping, I should stop bothering him?
- The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.
- We looked at the corporate-level tax problem in Chapter 4 when we examined salaries, dividends, and loans.
- Yet the two presidents occupy the same hierarchical layer, have similar authority, and take home comparable salaries.
THESAURUS
noun [countable] the money that you receive regularly for doing your job, usually paid to you every month. Salary is usually used for professional jobs such as teachers, managers, doctors etc: · Nurses earn a basic salary of £21,250.· Her salary is paid directly into her bank account.
noun [uncountable] the money you receive for doing a job: · The pay is pretty good.· Teachers are asking for higher pay.
noun [plural] (also wage [singular]) the money that someone is paid every week by their employer, especially someone who works in a shop or factory: · Practically all my wages go on housing and transport to work.· The average weekly wage was £350.· a wage increase
noun [countable, uncountable] the money that you receive regularly for doing your job, and from things such as a business or investments: · The amount of tax you have to pay depends on your income.· People on low incomes are finding it difficult to pay their fuel bills.
noun [plural] the total amount of money you earn from any job you do – used especially when the amount is different each month or year: · The average worker’s earnings have not kept up with inflation.
Longman Language Activatorthe money that you earn the money that you earn by working: · "What's the pay?" "About $10 an hour."· The worst thing about being a nurse is the low pay.sick pay (=pay that you get when you are ill and cannot work): · Joe's been receiving sick pay since the accident.
the money that someone is paid every month by their employer, especially someone who is in a profession, such as a teacher or a manager: a salary of £100,000/$10,000 etc: · The university provides a salary of $3,000 a month plus benefits.· Johansen reportedly earns an annual salary of $4 million. be on a salary (=be earning a salary): · I joined the company in 1985, on a salary of $22,000 a year.a good/high salary: · Our daughter makes a good salary, but she really works for it.
also wages the money that someone is paid every week by their employer, especially someone who works in a factory, shop etc: · Elvina earns an hourly wage of $11.· Without qualifications it's nearly impossible to get a job with decent wages.minimum wage (=the lowest amount of money that can legally be paid per hour to a worker): · Most of the new jobs in the area only pay the minimum wage.
all the money that you receive regularly, for work or for any other reason: · Braund's annual income is just over $40,000.· The amount of tax you have to pay depends on your income.be on a low income (=receive very little money): · Families on low incomes are eligible for state benefits.income from: · Richard has a comfortable income from his salary and his investments.
the total amount of money you earn from any work you do: · Most single mothers spend a large part of their earnings on childcare.· The average worker's earnings have not kept up with inflation.
money paid to a professional person such as a doctor or lawyer for a piece of work: · Dr Allison charges a fee of $90 for a consultation.· Last year IBM paid $12 million in legal fees to a single law firm.· The fee for the standard structural survey is £175.
WORD SETSbonus, noundanger money, noundirect deposit, noundouble time, nounearnings, nounincrement, nounindex-linked, adjectiveliving wage, nounlow-paid, adjectivemeans, nounovertime, nounpay, verbpay, nounpaycheque, nounpayday, nounPAYE, nounpay packet, nounpay rise, nounpayroll, nounpayslip, nounper diem, nounperformance-related pay, nounraise, nounredundancy pay, nounrise, nounsalaried, adjectivesalary, nounsub, nounsub, verbsuperannuation, nounsuperannuation scheme, nountake-home pay, nounwage, nounwage-earner, nounwage-packet, nounweighting, nounwell-paid, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs a family with gross earnings of just £75 per week
· She’s now earning a good salary as an interpreter.
British English (=be earning a salary)· He won’t tell me what salary he’s on.
formal (=be able to get a particular salary)· Which graduates command the highest salaries?
· Large companies often pay better salaries.
· We offer competitive salaries to graduates.
· His salary was increased to £80,000 a year.
(=reduce someone’s salary)· They will cut salaries before they cut jobs.
adjectives· She moved to a job with a higher salary.
· It sounds an interesting job, but the salary is too low.
(=one over £100,000 or $100,000)· He’s now a top executive with a six-figure salary.
· His annual salary is $200,000.
· What's your monthly salary?
· His current salary is just over £30,000 a year.
(=the basic amount that someone is paid)· You get a basic salary, and then other benefits on top.
(=the salary someone gets when they start a job)· The starting salary for a hotel manager is $26,400.
· Your pension is based on a proportion of your final salary.
salary + NOUN· He was given a huge salary increase.
(=a decrease in someone’s salary)· The workforce agreed to take salary cuts.
(=the list of increasing salaries that someone in a job can earn)· He is almost at the top of his salary scale.
phrases (=a reduction in salary)· He couldn’t afford to take a drop in salary.
· They were offered a 10% increase in salary.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· You are more likely to earn a decent wage if you have a degree.
a family with gross earnings of just £75 per week· Canadian workers received a 5.4% wage increase.
· As a senior teacher, she has reached the top of her pay scale.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27.· Would you add in overtime pay when listing your annual salary?· In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues.· With stock options added to his $ 700, 000 annual salary, McAllister makes more than a million dollars a year.· The prosecutors allege that Mr Estrada amassed more than $ 80m in office, far in excess of his annual salary.· This amount was approximately equivalent to half of their annual salary, depending on age and position held.· In the Federal Government, the starting annual salary for junior accountants and auditors was about $ 18, 700 in 1995.
· It says it faces problems because it receives money for average rather than actual salaries.· I once had an employer who for three years gave me about half of the average salary raise based on inflation.· In companies with turnover of less than £3m the average salary was £34,724.· But after managers put in 10 to 15 years, the average salary rises to $ 51, 600.· The average salary has decreased, and people are not always paid on time.· In 1913, the average salary for industrial workers was $ 675 a year.· The average salary is only about half that, and most employees have not been paid for months.· Their average starting salary is $ 34, 500.
· Compensation is made of a base salary and a bonus.· The new contract, which Laws negotiated with the board, also provides additional compensation that is separate from the base salary.· As he would have a police pension he knew he would have a base salary while he set up his new career.· The range is 1.5 percent of base salary for meeting one or two objectives to 5 percent for five or more.· Of these, 97 have base salaries that are smaller than their income from bonuses.· In fact, production employees receive no base salary or hourly wage at all.· It seems reasonable therefore, to use total earnings rather than base salary as the criteria for the pay league.· In some cases, their bonus potential may reach 150 percent of their base salary.
· Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.· There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.· Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.· A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was' entirely his affair.· Managers receive rent-free accommodation and a basic salary.· Expatriates' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary.
· Directors of subsidiaries of foreign companies received bigger salaries than directors of UK-owned companies.· Trading Miller also means the Sharks dumped another big salary.· He decided to stay and was rewarded in 1984 with the chairmanship - and the big salary.· He gets annual increases but never a big salary jump, which he would if he were promoted.
· The new £75,000 final salary limit applies to AVCs in the same way as to other earnings.· The Local Government Scheme is a final salary scheme.· Firstly, gains from share options in the final year of employment were no longer allowed in the calculation of final salary.
· Indeed, many draw very high salaries, run profitable businesses, have satisfied clients, and some become millionaires.· Generally, building inspectors, including plan examiners, earn the highest salaries.· In 1763 the highest orchestral salary went to the premier violon, Le Bel.· Daley promising Wilson as much money as he needed for higher salaries and modern equipment.· The Government wants to legalise payment of higher salaries to non-trade union members.· Jobs in technological fields generally receive higher salaries than jobs in the human services sector.· Banking is the occupation yielding the greatest number of high salaries.· It also spent too much on monthly advertising and hired too may workers at high salaries, analysts said.
· But many people in the South East who enjoy large salaries also have large fixed debts and overheads.· Loretta wondered whether Puddephat's fellowship provided an unusually large salary, or whether the objects were a relic of his marriage.
· Put another way, that means lower salaries for members a proposal more redolent of second-class citizenship than a classless society.· This fact, when combined with low salaries, fosters corruption, he says.· They are paid low salaries and everything is worse for them, they have to face the insults of supervisors.· They were willing to accept low base salaries in the early years of their contracts in exchange for large signing bonuses.· Both the highest and the lowest salaries awarded vary considerably.· Since young workers typically earn lower salaries, their greater numbers would be partially offset by their lower earnings.· We could go out to work, although usually at lower salaries and with lower expectations than men.· Others have been offered jobs on lower grades and salaries or short contracts.
· Baptists began raising a Sustentation Fund in 1908 and set a minimum salary of £160 in 1912.· The minimum salary back then was only $ 45, 000, but I was thrilled to get.· One third of the male workforce, but only one-tenth of the female workforce, earn above the minimum salary.· Both of their contracts are for one year at $ 164, 000, the minimum salary for second-year players.· There were to be increases in civil service wages and in minimum salary levels.
· In constant dollar terms, a teacher with a monthly salary of $ 381 six weeks ago now brings home $ 248.· Petar Beron calculates his monthly salary in loaves of bread.· The part-time worker has the right to a monthly salary proportionally equivalent to that of a corresponding full-time employee.· In future they will be treated like other manual workers and be paid monthly salaries.· Sir Hugh Rossi - more than one quarter of monthly salary?· They put the money into a bank account, out of which they pay themselves a monthly salary.· They do nothing but draw their monthly salaries.
· You should take some time off, even if your yearly salary is what Bill Gates earns in a nanosecond.
NOUN· The other was the salary cap.· Because the Bulls were under the salary cap, they were free to make deals other teams could not consider.· The Cowboys are interested in re-signing both players if they can work out more salary cap-friendly deals.· He was released by the team in a move sources said was related more to performance than to salary cap considerations.· More players will be released as teams get down to the $ 67.4 million salary cap before free agency begins Friday.· Neither will the first coach be encumbered by the salary cap.· The salary cap was not in place when Jimmy was riding high in Dallas.· The owners, initially demanding an NBA-like salary cap, shut down the league from the start of the 1994-95 season.
· He doesn't believe that extra money motivates, whether that money be a bonus, profit sharing or a salary increase.· As a result, both candidates for governor are considering earmarking some state aid for salary increases.· The decision of the Tribunal is that a salary increase of 1.69% should apply for 12 months from 1st March 1993.· That means we're overdue for a salary increase in many districts.· Also included in the budget was a 103 percent general salary increase for workers.· Few were in the top echelons, and they regularly fell behind their male colleagues in promotions and salary increases.· The level of salary increases has fallen every year since 1990, when they rose 6. 1 %.· The state is also threatening to fine the company and to block salary increases for its managers.
· There were to be increases in civil service wages and in minimum salary levels.· My boss' excuse is that I am at the maximum salary level.· The survey also asked companies about the salary level of executives recruited via headhunters.· With the current system, the city staff recommends salary levels, and the City Council takes action.· Are the salary levels of those recruited by headhunters likely to go up or come down?· He increased salary levels by 50 percent and began to treat his employees like professionals.
· What is the salary range of executives recruited? 5.· An employment interviewer reviews these forms and asks the applicant about the type of job sought and salary range desired.· Heads' salaries range from 18,900 to 40,002; deputy heads' from 18,300 to 29,100.· Is this within the salary range I think I need?
· The recommended salary scale for bureaux managers is pegged to local authority rates for professional staff.· The salary scale for the post is, currently perannum.· However, Geoffrey is almost at the top of his salary scale and does not want extra commitments.· Staff salary scales were not changed during the year.· There is rapid promotion, normally after 3 years, to the next grade where the salary scale is £15,553 to £23,025.· Our claim for a more just salary scale for Bank Assistants may be down, but it is not out.· The General Synod could consider laying down salary scales for church musicians, as it does in respect of parochial fees.
VERB· Edhi and Bilquis draw no salary.· The workers have been drawing their full salaries and benefits during the negotiations, Miller said.· Meanwhile he draws his salary of £63,047 a year - and is worth every penny of it.· Vivian had drawn a handsome salary from the agencies she ran.· They ended with loss-making Continental involvement and directors said to be drawing two lots of salaries and dividends for the same service.· They can draw individual salaries of up to $ 250, 000 a year or more.· They do nothing but draw their monthly salaries.· Unlike the owners of a corporation, sole proprietors and partners do not draw salaries as such.
· Now, just for once try and earn that over-inflated salary we pay you.· Generally, building inspectors, including plan examiners, earn the highest salaries.· I earn a 5 figure salary and have three houses.· I, who was earning the only salary in the house and doing all the housekeeping, I should stop bothering him?· You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile, so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result.· Even the core group of 30 who are paid professionals earn salaries unlikely to inspire letters to the editor.· I am 22, but I will not be able to earn my first salary until I reach 24.
· It will include details of salary, pension and profit-related pay drawn from Lloyd's sources.· The index tracks changes in what companies and governments pay workers, including wages, salaries and benefits.· Extrinsic rewards include wage, salary, bonuses, commission payments, working conditions, a car, pension, etc.· These items should include the salary group classed as permanent, as temporary, or as services secured on a contract basis.· This should be included in a salaries and wages budget of 20% of turnover.· General operating expenses, including salaries and pension contributions, grew 3. 4 percent, to 92. 927 billion pesetas.· Reclaiming this tax involves filling in a tax return, including details of your salary received and the tax deducted.· That money is not included in their salaries, so less tax is paid.
· Salary caps are imposed to prevent richer clubs gaining an unfair advantage over poorer rivals by offering players vastly inflated salaries.· And Arsenal were offering an unusually high salary for a football manager - £2,000.· The Huddersfield directors tried to persuade Chapman to stay, even offering him a salary to match Arsenal's.· We offer a competitive salary, together with excellent terms and conditions of employment.· Employers in all fields of endeavour were crying out for them, offering generous salaries along with an array of enticing perks.· We offer an excellent salary and benefits package, including relocation costs.· In return for your skills, we offer salaries as stated, a comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity for career progression.
· There is no justification for paying a salary otherwise.· Hourly pay or a salary is the way that the organization tells us that our work is valuable.· So you offer to pay Joanna's salary, and, of course, that would automatically make you her employer.· Thus the taxpayers who pay their salaries have to pay their taxes as well.· Although many officials and newspapers proposed that they be paid a modest salary, only the chief headmen received official remuneration.· The federal government would pay for the salaries and benefits of the new officers.· And anyway, he pays their salaries.· But if your business pays generous salaries to its other employees, your salary will look more reasonable.
· Loretta wondered whether Puddephat's fellowship provided an unusually large salary, or whether the objects were a relic of his marriage.· But then, for each division of service, a subjective analysis is provided, e.g. salaries, premises, etc.
· The fact is that we have no option but to raise salaries.· The next week Miss Tish raised her salary to ten dollars a week.· Sure I raised his salary, soon as the story got big.· I used the offer to try to get another company I was interested in to raise its salary offer.· The complement had now been raised to 145 and salaries increased by 28 percent.
· For instance, in capitalist society, managers, administrators and professionals receive relatively high salaries because of the demand for their services.· In fact, production employees receive no base salary or hourly wage at all.· He received a fixed salary, with an extra fee per execution and half that sum for each felon tortured.· In 6 States, legislators received a daily salary plus an allowance for expenses while legislatures were in session.· Already some state civil servants are receiving their salaries late.· Yesterday, he received his first salary of 600 rupees.· Mr X receives a salary and is provided with a company car which is available for private use.· Jobs in technological fields generally receive higher salaries than jobs in the human services sector.
· Answer guide: Reduce bank and charge salary as an expense.· The begin-ning of real trouble was flunking the bar exam and receiving, in turn, a reduced salary from my firm.· Constructive dismissal includes demoting you, reducing your salary or making you do demeaning chores without actually sacking you.· But streets are filled with frustrated people unemployed or living on reduced and delayed salaries, suffering from late pensions and benefits.· They'd give you low-paying-jobs, reduce your salary or simply dismiss you with no reasons given.
· Twenty intending solicitors or barristers are being sought immediately for articles or pupillage, at starting salaries of £12,672.· The starting salary was about twenty-five thousand dollars a year plus bonus.· Expatriates' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary.· Many more people were hired to handle the new business, on starting salaries of forty-eight grand.· The joke, of course, was that the real students were currently being head-hunted for posts with starting salaries in excess of 20K.· In many careers, starting salaries are puny but rice precipitously once people get five to 10 years' experience.· Yet the median starting salary for engineering graduates is above the average at Pounds 16,000.· Average starting salaries for graduates with technical degrees have also gotten a boost.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► dock somebody’s wages/pay/salary► a livable wage/salary
money that you receive as payment from the organization you work for, usually paid to you every month: - Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
- Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
- Graduated pension is increased annually in the same way as the basic pension.
- In money terms, the value is about 60 percent of the level of basic pension to which their husband is entitled.
- Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
- There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.
- Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children.
- A million pounds is the going rate for an ordinary player in today's inflationary market.
- At the going rate of half a million dollars per minute, there is no time for truth.
- It typically is charged twice the going rate as the criminal inmates housed in the same facility.
- One can of C rations was the going rate.
- Or holiday-depending if he's got the brains to get the going rate on betrayal.
- State law now prohibits insurers from denying coverage to small businesses or charging them more than 20 percent above the going rate.
- What is the going rate for bodies in Cairo, Mr el Zaki?
- Who is it that sets the going rate for our work?
- For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
- The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.
The average salary for a teacher is $39,000 a year.COLLOCATIONSverbsearn/get/receive a salary· She’s now earning a good salary as an interpreter.be on a salary British English (=be earning a salary)· He won’t tell me what salary he’s on.command a salary formal (=be able to get a particular salary)· Which graduates command the highest salaries?pay somebody a salary· Large companies often pay better salaries.offer somebody a salary· We offer competitive salaries to graduates.increase somebody’s salary· His salary was increased to £80,000 a year.cut somebody’s salary (=reduce someone’s salary)· They will cut salaries before they cut jobs.adjectiveshigh/good· She moved to a job with a higher salary.low· It sounds an interesting job, but the salary is too low.a six-figure salary (=one over £100,000 or $100,000)· He’s now a top executive with a six-figure salary.annual salary· His annual salary is $200,000.monthly salary· What's your monthly salary?current salary· His current salary is just over £30,000 a year.basic/base salary (=the basic amount that someone is paid)· You get a basic salary, and then other benefits on top.starting salary (=the salary someone gets when they start a job)· The starting salary for a hotel manager is $26,400.final salary· Your pension is based on a proportion of your final salary.salary + NOUNa salary increase· He was given a huge salary increase.a salary cut (=a decrease in someone’s salary)· The workforce agreed to take salary cuts.the salary scale/structure (=the list of increasing salaries that someone in a job can earn)· He is almost at the top of his salary scale.phrasesa drop/cut in salary (=a reduction in salary)· He couldn’t afford to take a drop in salary.an increase/rise in salary· They were offered a 10% increase in salary.THESAURUSsalary noun [countable] the money that you receive regularly for doing your job, usually paid to you every month. Salary is usually used for professional jobs such as teachers, managers, doctors etc: · Nurses earn a basic salary of £21,250.· Her salary is paid directly into her bank account.pay noun [uncountable] the money you receive for doing a job: · The pay is pretty good.· Teachers are asking for higher pay.wages noun [plural] (also wage [singular]) the money that someone is paid every week by their employer, especially someone who works in a shop or factory: · Practically all my wages go on housing and transport to work.· The average weekly wage was £350.· a wage increaseincome noun [countable, uncountable] the money that you receive regularly for doing your job, and from things such as a business or investments: · The amount of tax you have to pay depends on your income.· People on low incomes are finding it difficult to pay their fuel bills.earnings noun [plural] the total amount of money you earn from any job you do – used especially when the amount is different each month or year: · The average worker’s earnings have not kept up with inflation.