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# salary

«salary» in Mova's school dictionary: **paid for their job, usually the same amount every month…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a salary, salaries)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x1)
- A teacher's salary is paid every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x2)
- Her salary went up this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x3)
- He saves part of his salary. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x5)
- Footballers can have very large salaries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x6)
- People with a salary pay tax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/#x7)
- "Now he'll get a salary," said the man. [tree →](https://md.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).

### In the corpora

- [Adults earn money by working, and their salary pays for the home, food and bills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/264-routines-screens-and-earning/14/)
- [Adults earn a salary by doing a job, and that money pays for the home, food and bills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/1/)
- [A salary is a fixed amount paid for a job, usually every month.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/4/)
- [A wage or salary is the money a worker is paid for their work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «salary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.