Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In receipt of a fixed salary or stipulated pay, as distinguished from honorary, or without pay, or remunerated by fees only; having a fixed or stipulated salary: as, a salaried inspector; a salaried office; a salaried post.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Describing someone who is paid a salary as opposed to an hourly worker. Generally indicating a professional or manager.
  • adjective Describing someone who is paid monthly as opposed to weekly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective receiving a salary
  • adjective receiving or eligible for compensation
  • adjective for which money is paid

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Examples

  • A recent amendment to the federal shield bill being considered in the Senate will exclude non - "salaried" journalists and bloggers from the proposed law's protections.

    Pam Spaulding: Hanging Citizen Journalists Out to Dry: Shield-Law Amendment Excludes Unpaid Bloggers 2009

  • In spite of lawsuits and court settlements, a clear majority of video game employers continue to toss animators into the "salaried" category, and said employees thereby have the privilege of working an infinite number of hours for a very finite amount of pay.

    Salary Slavery Steve Hulett 2008

  • The "salaried" positions must follow the same rules as hourly.

    Workers of America: Wake Up! We All Need a Union! 2008

  • In spite of lawsuits and court settlements, a clear majority of video game employers continue to toss animators into the "salaried" category, and said employees thereby have the privilege of working an infinite number of hours for a very finite amount of pay.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Steve Hulett 2008

  • Companies refer to "salaried" management personnel and "hourly" factory employees, as if to emphasize that blue-collar workers may be jettisoned at any moment.

    Voting for Unemployment 1983

  • Companies refer to "salaried" management personnel and "hourly" factory employees, as if to emphasize that blue-collar workers may be jettisoned at any moment.

    Voting for Unemployment 1983

  • "i can fix this problem in 10 seconds: all guards are reclassified as salaried employees. probably wouldn't hurt to look at revising staffing levels and procedures to more acurately reflect reality and not what is good for the paycheck. sadly the massive overtime costs pale in comparison to the benefits package costs. this has pretty much been a power play between the union and govt to try to force each other to bend"

    News from www.pantagraph.com 2009

  • When the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National War Labor Board reported in 1918 that on average, “wage earners and the low or medium salaried families” had more than doubled the percentage of their spending on items other than food, shelter, and clothing since 1875, government policymakers and intellectuals set out to establish a “minimum comfort” budget for working-class families that would be frugal and thus patriotic.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • And in the high-tech city of Sendai, on the island of Honshu, a young engineer is exploring salaried posts available in Europe.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And in the high-tech city of Sendai, on the island of Honshu, a young engineer is exploring salaried posts available in Europe.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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