SALARY  , a

payment for services rendered, usually a stipulated sum paid monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly, and for a permanent or lengthy term of employment . It is generally contrasted with " wages," a term applied to weekly or daily payment for manual services . As laid down by Bowen, L . J., In re Shine (1892)) 1 Q.B . 529, " Salary means a definite payment for personal services under some contract and computed by time." The Latin salarium meant originally salt money (Lat. sal, salt), i.e. the sum paid to soldiers for salt . In post-Augustan Latin the word was applied to any allowance, pension or stipend .