remuneration

Pay for services

Remuneration is payment for work or services—a formal term for compensation.

It encompasses salary, wages, bonuses, and benefits: The position offers competitive remuneration.

The word appears most often in business, legal, and HR contexts where *pay* or *salary* would sound too casual: The board reviewed executive remuneration packages.

earnings

salary

Fixed periodic employment payment

profit · dividend · returns · revenue · yield · proceeds · royalties · annuity · bonus · commission

reward

bonus

Reward beyond expectation

gratuity · tip · prize · benefit · perquisite · windfall · recognition · severance

compensation

recompense

Payment for loss

damages · settlement · redress · amends · recoupment · repayment · satisfaction · atonement · recovery · consideration

wage

hourly

Once each sixty minutes

take-home · paystub · timesheet · underpaid

livelihood

employment

Paid occupation status

  • workEffort toward a goal
  • jobPaid position of employment
  • occupationOne's regular paid work

profession · vocation · trade · career · calling · position · post · living · sustenance · subsistence

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payment status

remunerationnonpayment

Failure to settle debts

unpaid labor · underpayment · wage theft · stiffing · default

value direction

remunerationpenalty

Punishment for wrongdoing

punishment · forfeiture · fine · penalization · confiscation

transactional nature

remunerationgift

Item given freely

donation · charity · gratuity · handout · alms

Family

remunerative, remunerating, remunerations

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