This is a list of business vocabulary related to pay, salary, wage...
A wage or salary earned for work
A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which may be specified in an employment contract.
Wages differ from salaries in the sense that each job, hour or other unit is paid separately, rather than on a periodic basis.
A pension is a fixed sum paid regularly to a person, typically, given following a retirement from service.
An overdue payment from an employer to an employee for work done in earlier.
The employer payed a back payment to his employee on his wages from 3 months earlier.
A reduction in the amount of pay an employee is given.
The pay cuts will affect only new employees.
To ask for an increase in pay.
The amount of money received per unit time usually per hour
In some countries women's pay rate is lower than men's
This is the amount of money left over after deductions from the gross salary.
This is money paid to someone relating to how well he or she works at the workplace.
What an employer earns before other sums of money, such as payments for working extra hours, are added.
An extra sum given as a premium to an employee
The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.
A Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) adjusts salaries based on changes in a cost-of-living index. Salaries are typically adjusted annually.
A disability pension is a form of pension given to those people who are permanently or temporarily unable to work due to a disability.
Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours. Overtime pay is the money given to someone for such work. Employers are required to pay workers at a higher hourly rate for overtime work.
A severance package is pay and benefits an employee receives when he or she leaves employment at a company.
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