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Earnings vs Salary - What's the difference?

earnings | salary |

Salary is a synonym of earnings.



As nouns the difference between earnings and salary

is that earnings is wages, money earned, income 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 a verb salary is

to pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.

As an adjective salary is

saline.

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