salary - wages

salary - wages
Salary and wages are both used to refer to the money paid to someone regularly for the work they do.
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◊ 'salary'
Professional people such as teachers are usually paid a salary. Their salary is the amount of money which they are paid each year, although they actually get a certain amount each month.

She earns a high salary as an accountant.

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◊ 'wages'
If someone gets money each week for the work they do, you refer to this money as their wages.

His wages had been reduced to seventy pounds a week.

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◊ 'wage'
You can refer in a general way to the amount that someone earns as a wage.

...the problems of bringing up children on a low wage.

They're campaigning for a legal minimum wage.

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