salary

remuneration paid by an employer to an employee periodically, rather than based on actual time worked
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salary

Summary

salary is a consideration[1]. salary draws 119 Wikipedia views per month (consideration category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • salary's instance of is recorded as consideration[3].
  • salary is a type of remuneration[4].
  • salary is a type of consideration[5].
  • salary is a type of income[6].
  • salary's Commons category is recorded as Wages[7].
  • salary's said to be the same as is recorded as wage[8].
  • salary's said to be the same as is recorded as Q12532383[9].
  • salary comprises guaranteed pay[10].
  • salary comprises variable pay[11].
  • salary's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • salary's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • salary's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[14].
  • salary's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • salary's has characteristic is recorded as guaranteed pay[16].
  • salary's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3618[17].
  • salary's equivalent class is recorded as http://pcp-on-web.de/ontology#Salary[18].
  • salary's different from is recorded as wage[19].

Body

Definition and Type

salary's instance of is recorded as consideration[3]. Recorded subclass of include remuneration[4], consideration[5], and income[6].

Use and Application

Components include guaranteed pay[10] and variable pay[11].

Why It Matters

salary draws 119 Wikipedia views per month (consideration category, ranking #2 of 3).[2] salary has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] salary is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as wage, Q12532383
    Has parts
    Has part(s) guaranteed pay, variable pay
    Subclass of remuneration, consideration, income
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|13 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2008, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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