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salary

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

salary is a consideration[1]. salary draws 2,794 Wikipedia views per month (consideration category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: remuneration[3], consideration[4], income[5]
  • Commons category: Wages[6]
  • Said to be the same as: wage[7], Q12532383[8]
  • Has part(s): guaranteed pay[9], variable pay[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[13], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14]
  • Has characteristic: guaranteed pay[15]
  • Main Wikidata property: P3618[16]
  • Equivalent class: http://pcp-on-web.de/ontology#Salary[17]
  • Different from: wage[18]

Why It Matters

salary has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] salary is known by 117 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → salaries
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: salaries, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289957492|salaries (#289957492)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  2. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0203157-platy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0203157-platy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  3. 17w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → alga
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: darbo-uzmokestis"
  4. 21w 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 */ Yso id: 2008, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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