to pay a salary
101pay — 1. verb /peɪ/ a) To give money in exchange for goods or services. He paid him to clean the place up. b) To be profitable. Crime doesn’t pay. See Also: payment …
102pay grade — noun a) A level indicating a base salary (in the US applying to military and government employees). b) Level of authority or responsibility (since pay rate, authority and responsibility generally increase similarly) …
103Pay-As-You-Earn — Known as the PAYE scheme . Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary A system whereby employees suffer income tax deduction at source from their salaries. Instead of paying the gross salary to the employee, the employer is obliged under… …
104pay packet — (British) pay envelope, package containing employees salary …
105pay cut — /ˈpeɪ kʌt/ (say pay kut) noun a decrease in one s salary. Also, paycut …
106pay as you earn — /ˌpeɪ əz ju: ɜ:n/ noun a tax system, where income tax is deducted from the salary before it is paid to the worker. Abbreviation PAYE (NOTE: The US term is pay as you go.) …
107pay package — / peɪ ˌpækɪdʒ/ noun the salary and other benefits offered with a job ● The job carries an attractive pay package …
108pay review — / peɪ rɪˌvju:/ noun an occasion when an employee’s salary is considered and usually increased ● I’m soon due for a pay review and hope to get a rise …
109pay scale — / peɪ skeɪl/ noun a table that sets out the range of pay offered for each grade of job in an organisation. Also called salary scale, wage scale …
110pay — Verb: To recompense another in satisfaction of a debt, by way of a reward, or for goods, other property, or services received from or rendered by him. To discharge a debt; to deliver a creditor the value of a debt, either in money or goods, to… …
