Another way to say “paid”

When a manager gives you a more senior role's responsibilities without the title or salary. The 2023 corporate anti-pattern: "you're basically already doing the job, so next cycle we'll formalize it" — repeated each cycle. Classic rug-pull.

The pay cut workers accept to do "meaningful" work — journalism, non-profits, museums, publishing. Critics argue this tax is how the industries get away with low wages.

To deduct union members' dues from their wages.

(chiefly, US) Money paid as a deposit to show intent to buy or to reserve an item to be purchased; especially, money accompanying an offer to buy real estate.

(US, professional, _, sports) The study or science of salary caps, the rules regulating the total amount of player compensation.

(figurative) The salary of an employee.

(UK, legal, obsolete) The grazing or pasturing of cattle, or a fee paid for this.

(UK, economics) National Average Earnings Index, a measure of inflation based on the change in population salaries.

(UK, Yorkshire, dialect, archaic) Earnings.