Salary vs. Allowance — What's the Difference?

A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which may be specified in an employment contract. It is contrasted with piece wages, where each job, hour or other unit is paid separately, rather than on a periodic basis.

The act of allowing.

A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker

An amount that is allowed or granted

Pay a salary to

Something, such as money, given at regular intervals or for a specific purpose

Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis.

A small amount of money regularly given to a child, often as payment for household chores.

A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.

A price reduction, especially one granted in exchange for used merchandise

To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.

To put on a fixed allowance

(obsolete) Saline.

To dispense in fixed quantities; ration.

Saline

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting

The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.

Acknowledgment.

To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose

Something that remunerates;

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.

(horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.

A child's allowance; pocket money.

(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

(obsolete) Approval; approbation.

(obsolete) License; indulgence.

(engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.

(transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

(transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

Approval; approbation.

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

Acknowledgment.

License; indulgence.

That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

An amount allowed or granted (as during a given period);

A sum granted as reimbursement for expenses

An amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances;

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

A reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets

The act of allowing;

Put on a fixed allowance, as of food