# salary

Pronunciation: say "SAL-uh-ree" /ˈsæl.ə.ɹi/

## Noun

1. A fixed amount of money paid to a worker on a monthly or annual basis rather than hourly, implying professional or autonomous work.
   - Simple: A fixed amount of money a company pays a worker, usually each month or year.
   - _The company offered her an annual salary of sixty thousand dollars._
   - _Negotiating a higher salary requires research into industry pay standards._

## Verb

2. To pay a worker on the basis of a week or longer, especially when converting from another form of compensation.
   - Simple: To pay someone a fixed amount over weeks or longer instead of by the hour.
   - _Management voted to salary the warehouse crew, ending years of hourly pay._
   - _Some startups salary their interns to attract long-term talent._

## Adjective

3. Saline; containing or consisting of salt. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Containing salt, or tasting salty.

## Origin

It comes through Middle English salarie and Old French salaire from Latin salarium ("wages"), the neuter of the adjective salarius ("related to salt"), from sal ("salt"). It is generally assumed salarium was short for salarium argentum ("salt money"), though that phrase is not attested; one commonly cited but unproven idea is that Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, while another is that the money was used to buy salt and other items.

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