wage
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
Example
“Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.”
Word history
From Medieval Latin "wadium".
Where this comes from
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