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Remuneration vs Salary The words salary, wage, emoluments, and remuneration etc. hold great significance for those doing a job in an organization. While all these terms indicate the money and other benefits received by an employee in exchange for services rendered by him for the organization during a fixed term, there are subtle differences […]
Salary vs Income Any individual requires some form of inflow of funds in order to purchase the goods and services that can satisfy their needs. Salary and income share common properties in that they are both forms of monetary inflows of funds that are received by an individual. The two are different from each […]
Blue Collar vs White Collar Just as, we have blue blood being the blood of the royalty, we have blue collar and white collar being applied to both jobs as well as workers doing these jobs. Because of the pejorative manner in which some people use these adjectives for jobs and workers, there is some social […]
Salary vs Wages When someone asks your income, if you are in a private or government service, he is obviously referring to your salary. But when we talk about the income of blue collar workers or others who earn daily through their work, we invariably talk in terms of wages. Though wages are income, and […]
Career vs Job The words career and job are so common that we hardly pay attention to the differences between them. We speak of them as if they are interchangeable and in fact synonyms, whereas the fact is that career is different and distinct from the job that you may be doing at present. […]
Wage vs Remuneration Between the words wage and remuneration, there is a difference. On a general note, both words are used when referring to a payment, mostly in the industrial setting. First let us define the two words so that a basic understanding of the terms can be gained. A wage is a fixed, […]
Key Difference – Salary vs Hourly Salary and hourly wage are two different systems used by employers for remunerating an employee between which some differences can be identified. While salary is the more commonly use term used for remuneration from a job, hourly wages are also given in many professions. While this may not […]
Wage vs Income The two words ‘wage’ and ‘income’ might look similar with no difference at all whatsoever, but strictly speaking there is difference between the two words. The word ‘wage’ is often used in the plural as ‘wages’ whereas the word ‘income’ is a collective noun and the form ‘incomes’ is used sparingly. It […]
Net vs Gross *Gross – total earnings in a specific period *Net – what you take home You would often hear the two words net and gross, especially when you are about to take up any career after finishing your education. You would hear the two words if you are an employer too and provide […]
