salaried

1. 1
   adjective

   Paid a regular salary rather than by the hour or as an unpaid volunteer, usually denoting a professional or manager.

   The company moved its delivery drivers from hourly pay to salaried positions.

   As a salaried manager, he rarely tracked the exact hours he put in.

   Similarpaid

   Oppositehourly, unpaid, voluntary

   Note

   Formed from the noun salary plus -ed, the word sorts workers by how they are paid. In this use it marks a line against hourly pay and unpaid service. It works as an either-or label, so nobody is "more salaried" than a colleague. It sits most naturally before nouns of employment, as in a salaried position, salaried staff or a salaried employee.

2. 2
   adjective

   Receiving wages on a monthly basis rather than weekly.

   The new contract made the cleaners salaried, with deposits arriving monthly instead of every Friday.

   Salaried employees receive a single payment each month rather than a weekly check.

   Note

   Here the contrast is with the weekly pay packet rather than the hourly wage. A cleaner moved to monthly payment becomes salaried even if the job itself stays the same. Context tells you which line is being drawn. Set against weekly wages, the word is about the pay calendar. Set against hourly or volunteer work, it is about the kind of job.

3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of salary.

   Note

   The verb behind this form usually describes a change in pay arrangements: putting people who were paid some other way onto a salary. As with carry and carried, the y becomes i before -ed. The adjective shares the spelling, so "salaried staff" can name a state. Constructions such as "the firm salaried them" or "they were salaried last year" mark the verb.

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