{
    "term": "salary",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "money that employees receive for doing their job, especially professional employees or people working in an office, usually paid every month",
            "sensetop": "on a salary (of something)",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an **annual salary** of $40 000"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The average **monthly salary** for an unskilled worker is $550."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's on a salary of £24 000.",
                    "contextForm": "on a salary (of something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **earned** a six-figure **salary**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a 9 per cent **salary increase**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He gets a **basic salary** plus commission."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**base salary**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Chemical engineering grads are expected to get the biggest **starting salaries**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the closure of final salary pension schemes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have no money to pay staff salaries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The CEO received a salary of $1 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The average **annual salary** for those jobs was $90 721."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's impossible to bring up a family on such a low salary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "US tech workers command six-figure salaries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mr Kerry continued to draw his salary during the time of his absence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She raised his salary to $36 000."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The position is rewarded with a generous salary package."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The salary cap will be set at $49.5 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Top salaries are liable for a higher rate of tax."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What salary band will I be on after two years in the company?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Workers are being asked to take a cut in salary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Your pension will be based on a proportion of your final salary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Texas has the lowest teacher salaries in America."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life", "Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "generous", "good"],
                "verb + salary": ["pay (somebody)", "command", "earn"],
                "salary + verb": ["increase", "rise"],
                "salary + noun": ["package", "hike", "increase"],
                "preposition": ["on a salary"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an increase in salary",
                    "a raise in salary",
                    "a rise in salary"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsæləri/",
                "audio": "sa/salary/salary__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsæləri/",
                "audio": "sa/salary/salary__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French salarie, from Latin salarium, originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal ‘salt’."
}