SALARY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SALARY?

Need another word that means the same as “salary”? Find 14 synonyms and 30 related words for “salary” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Salary” are: earnings, pay, remuneration, wage, fee, fees, emolument, emoluments, stipend, honorarium, hire, wages, gross pay, payment

Salary as a Noun

Definitions of "Salary" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “salary” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Something that remunerates.
• A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.

Synonyms of "Salary" as a noun (14 Words)

earnings	Money obtained in return for labour or services. Export earnings.
emolument	Compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees. A clause in the U S constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes.
emoluments	Compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees. A clause in the U S constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes.
fee	An interest in land capable of being inherited. They were faced with legal fees of 3000.
fees	A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
gross pay	Twelve dozen.
hire	A newly hired employee. The new hires need special training.
honorarium	A payment given for professional services that are rendered nominally without charge.
pay	Something that remunerates. He wasted his pay on drink.
payment	The act of paying money. A suit with a velvet collar that I got as payment for being in the show.
remuneration	Something that remunerates. Adequate remuneration for his work.
stipend	A sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose.
wage	The part of total production that is the return to labour as earned income as distinct from the remuneration received by capital as unearned income. An income of less than half the average wage.
wages	A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing. The wages of sin is death.

Usage Examples of "Salary" as a noun

• He received a salary of £24,000.
• A 15 per cent salary increase.

Associations of "Salary" (30 Words)

annuitant	A person who receives an annuity.
bonus	Anything that tends to arouse. Good weather is an added bonus but the real appeal is the landscape.
cash	Exchange for cash. The staff were paid in cash.
compensate	Make payment to compensate. He will be richly compensated for his efforts.
compensation	The action or process of awarding compensation. A compensation claim.
cost	Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice. The government succeeded in diverting resources away from consumption at considerable cost to its political popularity.
deposit	The natural process of laying down a deposit of something. Cash funds which are an alternative to bank or building society deposits.
earnings	The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses. They saved a quarter of all their earnings.
emolument	A salary, fee, or profit from employment or office. The directors emoluments.
incentive	An additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output. Give farmers an incentive to improve their land.
income	The financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time. Figures showed an overall increase in income this year.
increment	A regular increase in salary on an incremental scale. All sizes from 4 30 mm in 1 mm increments.
meed	A fitting reward. He must extract from her some meed of approbation.
pay	Make a compensation for. It was his way of paying out Maguire for giving him the push.
payment	Something given as a reward or in recompense for something done. A compensation payment of 2500.
recompense	Compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made. Substantial damages were paid in recompense.
refund	Pay back (money), typically to a customer who is not satisfied with goods or services bought. I ll refund you for the apples and any other damage.
reimburse	Reimburse or compensate someone as for a loss. Your expenses will be reimbursed.
reimbursement	A sum paid to cover money that has been spent or lost. He received reimbursement for his travel expenses.
remunerate	Make payment to; compensate. My efforts were not remunerated.
remuneration	Something that remunerates. Adequate remuneration for his work.
reparation	The act of putting something in working order again. Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after World War I.
restitution	The resumption of an object’s original shape or position through elastic recoil. Restitution of the damaged mucosa.
reward	Strengthen and support with rewards. Reaping the rewards of generosity.
subsidy	A sum of money granted to support an undertaking held to be in the public interest. She was anxious about her Arts Council subsidy.
tariff	Charge a tariff. The reduction of trade barriers and import tariffs.
taxable	(of goods or funds) subject to taxation. Taxable income.
taxation	Government income due to taxation. A taxation system.
unremunerative	Not yielding profit or recompense. An unremunerative occupation.
wage	Something that remunerates. Disasters are the wages of sin.