Perk vs Salary - What's the difference?
perk | salary |
To become more lively or enthusiastic.
To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
* Barrow
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
* Shakespeare
* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
As nouns the difference between perk and salary
is that perk is perquisite or perk can be a percolator, particularly of coffee while salary is a fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.As verbs the difference between perk and salary
is that perk is shortened form of percolate or perk can be to become more lively or enthusiastic or perk can be (dated) to peer; to look inquisitively while salary is to pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.As adjectives the difference between perk and salary
is that perk is smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain while salary is (obsolete) saline.perk
English
Etymology 1
From perquisite, by abbreviation.Alternative forms
* (l) (less common)Etymology 2
From percolate (verb) and percolator (noun), by abbreviation.Etymology 3
The origin is .Verb
(en verb)- to perk over them
- to perk''' the ears; to '''perk up one's head
- (Cowper)
- (Sherburne)
Derived terms
* perk up * perkyEtymology 4
The origin is .salary
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(salaries)- This is hire and salary , not revenge.
page 547
- Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.