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SALARY


The payment made to employees of an organisation, firm, etc., for the use of labour as a factor of production. It differs from wage in the following two ways:

(i) It is not paid on hourly basis (or for the actual number of hours worked by the employee) as wages are paid, and

(ii) It is usually paid on monthly basis whereas wages are paid on daily or weekly basis.