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Wage and salary

Spanish translation: salario y sueldo

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English term or phrase:Wage and salary
Spanish translation:salario y sueldo
Entered by: Rebecca Jowers

15:34 Apr 28, 2007
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Economics
English term or phrase: Wage and salary
The pace of wage and salary growth was also much slower that first reported.


Me gustaría saber cuál es la diferencia entre wage y salary, y con que términos podría traducirlas. Muchísimas gracias, tengan un buen día

Ester
Ester G-D
Local time: 22:23
salario y sueldo
Explanation:
wages in Spanish is "salario" (paid to workers, usually on an hourly basis)

salary in Spanish is "sueldo" (paid to professionals usually on a monthly basis)

The fact that "salary" and "salario" are false friends is clearly reflected in the definitions from Thomas West, "Spanish-English Dictionary of Law and Business":

sueldo--salary (received by professionals, as opposed to wages)

salario--wages (received by workers, as opposed to salary received by professionals)



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Note added at 1 hr (2007-04-28 16:52:48 GMT)
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Here are definitions from the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española:

sueldo.
Del lat. solidus.
3. Remuneración asignada a un individuo por el desempeño de un cargo o servicio profesional.

salario.
Del lat. salarium, de sal, sal.
1. m. estipendio, paga o remuneración.
2. En especial, cantidad de dinero con que se retribuye a los trabajadores manuales.


Here are definitions from Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law (1996):

wage--Payment, usually of money for labor or services usually according to a contract and on an hourly, daily or piecework basis

salary--a fixed compensation paid regulary for services


Definition of salary from Black's Law Dictionary, 8th ed. 2004:

salary--an agreed compensation for services, especially professional or semi-professional services, usually paid at regular intervals on a yearly basis, as distinguished from an hourly basis.
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Rebecca Jowers
Spain
Local time: 22:23
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Muchas gracias!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4sueldos y salarios
Rafael Molina Pulgar
5salario y sueldo
Rebecca Jowers
4remuneración y salario
Luis Javier Otoya


Discussion entries: 1





  

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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
wage and salary
remuneración y salario


Explanation:
La remuneración no siempre se efectúa en salarios

Luis Javier Otoya
Local time: 15:23
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
wage and salary
sueldos y salarios


Explanation:
Suerte.

Rafael Molina Pulgar
Mexico
Local time: 14:23
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 130

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agree  Yaotl Altan
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agree  NetTra
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agree  Alicia Villegas
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agree  Lydia De Jorge
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
wage and salary
salario y sueldo


Explanation:
wages in Spanish is "salario" (paid to workers, usually on an hourly basis)

salary in Spanish is "sueldo" (paid to professionals usually on a monthly basis)

The fact that "salary" and "salario" are false friends is clearly reflected in the definitions from Thomas West, "Spanish-English Dictionary of Law and Business":

sueldo--salary (received by professionals, as opposed to wages)

salario--wages (received by workers, as opposed to salary received by professionals)



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Note added at 1 hr (2007-04-28 16:52:48 GMT)
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Here are definitions from the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española:

sueldo.
Del lat. solidus.
3. Remuneración asignada a un individuo por el desempeño de un cargo o servicio profesional.

salario.
Del lat. salarium, de sal, sal.
1. m. estipendio, paga o remuneración.
2. En especial, cantidad de dinero con que se retribuye a los trabajadores manuales.


Here are definitions from Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law (1996):

wage--Payment, usually of money for labor or services usually according to a contract and on an hourly, daily or piecework basis

salary--a fixed compensation paid regulary for services


Definition of salary from Black's Law Dictionary, 8th ed. 2004:

salary--an agreed compensation for services, especially professional or semi-professional services, usually paid at regular intervals on a yearly basis, as distinguished from an hourly basis.

Rebecca Jowers
Spain
Local time: 22:23
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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Muchas gracias!
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