Definition of "salary"

salary

/ˈsæl.ə.ɹi/

noun
plural salaries
1. A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
  Quotations
  This is hire and salary, not revenge.
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]
  Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
  1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
  I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
  1935, Upton Sinclair, chapter XX, in I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, page 109
verb
third-person singular simple present salaries, present participle salarying, simple past and past participle salaried
1. To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
adjective
comparative more salary, superlative most salary
1. (obsolete) Saline.