fair compensation
Equitable wage earned
Fair compensation is payment or remuneration that adequately reflects the value of work performed, goods provided, or harm suffered.
The term implies a balance between what is given and what is received, judged against standards of equity rather than mere market forces.
In employment contexts, fair compensation encompasses not just wages but often benefits, working conditions, and recognition.
The workers demanded fair compensation for the overtime hours.
In legal settings, it frequently appears in discussions of eminent domain, where property owners must receive fair compensation when the government takes their land.
- equal payMatching compensation regardless of identity
- pay gapEarnings difference between groups
- justiceFair treatment under law
- just desertsMerited reward or punishment
- raiseLift or increase
fairness · equity · market value · worth every penny · workers' rights · transparency · living wage · cost of living · hazard pay · salary negotiation · bonus · restitution · pay scales · performance bonuses · severance pay · back pay · labor law · wages
- fairnessjustice, impartiality, equity, equal opportunity, equal treatment
- wageswage, salary, pay, paycheck, income
- pay equityequal pay, pay equity, pay equality, pay parity, wage equity
fair compensationunderpayment
Insufficient wages rendered
poverty wages · starvation wages · minimum wage · pittance · low pay
fair compensationexploitation
Selfish use of others
wage theft · labor exploitation · worker exploitation · economic exploitation · slave wages