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# salary

noun (a salary, salaries)

«salary» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

The money a person is paid for their job, usually the same amount every month or year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#m1)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and money lessons, pupils learn that adults earn a salary for working and use it to pay for food, rent and bills. In maths, salary appears in problems about yearly and monthly pay and saving. Phrases: earn a salary, a high salary, a yearly salary, salary per month.

### Examples

- My aunt earns a good salary as a nurse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x1)
- A teacher's salary is paid every month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x2)
- Her salary went up this year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x3)
- He saves part of his salary. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x4)
- If the yearly salary is 36,000 dollars, the monthly salary is 3,000 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x5)
- Footballers can have very large salaries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x6)
- People with a salary pay tax. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x7)
- "Now he'll get a salary," said the man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x8)

### Note

Countable: a salary, salaries. "Wage" or "wages" usually means pay worked out by the hour or week; a salary is a fixed amount for the year. Maths: monthly salary = yearly salary ÷ 12; weekly is about yearly ÷ 52. Spelling: "salary", not "sallary" or "celery" (a vegetable).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «salary» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«salary» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/salary.html) on Mova free.