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