What's the difference between honorarium and perquisite?

Honorarium


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Honorary

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1975 the Government of India initiated an integrated approach for the delivery of health care as well as nutrition and education services for deprived populations at the village level and in urban slums through centres, each of which was run by a local part-time female worker (anganwadi) who was paid an honorarium and had a helper.
  • (2) Although in many of these programmes the CHWs are salaried or receive an honorarium, there are a number of large-scale programmes in which CHWs work as unpaid volunteers.
  • (3) I was receiving an honorarium for delivering an opening keynote at a literacy conference, and because my expenses were being paid, they said: “You need to answer further questions.” So I was taken into this holding room with about 20 other people and kept there for an hour and 40 minutes, and for 15 minutes I was interrogated.
  • (4) The court heard Jackson was earning $170,000 a year as national secretary and received a $63,000 honorarium from the union’s Victorian branch, which the HSU wants back.
  • (5) Justice Tracey said a $63,000 honorarium paid to Jackson was not authorised and should not have been paid.
  • (6) Students reported they were motivated to participate, not only by the honorarium, but because they believed the OSCE would be fun and interesting and because they were interested in medical education and in improving clinical evaluation.

Perquisite


Definition:

  • (n.) Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service.
  • (n.) Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multicellular tumor spheroids (MTS) provide a closer in vitro correlate to in vivo malignancy than do conventional monolayer cultures; while simulating many parameters of in vivo growth, MTS systems provide those perquisites (i.e., experimental control, economy, expediency) associated with in vitro evaluation of preclinical therapeutic strategies.
  • (2) Persons insured in Group 2, on payment of a premium, obtain certain perquisites as compared with Group 1, primarily they may consult general practitioners and specialists of their own choice.