What's the difference between honorarium and wages?

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.

Wages


Definition:

  • (n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
  • (2) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (3) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (4) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
  • (5) Although the unemployment rate is 4.8%, it can come down further without wage inflation starting to rise.
  • (6) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
  • (7) But I hope 2015 will see the wage increases I expected to see this year.
  • (8) "While it seems possible that more will join the two MPC dissenters in coming months if wage growth picks up, it looks a long way to go before a majority on the MPC vote to raise interest rates," he said.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
  • (10) In more than 30 years of elections, ruling parties have lost when real wages are falling and an opposition party only won once, in 1997, when real wages were rising.
  • (11) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
  • (12) On his personal website, Miliband talks about the importance of the national minimum wage.
  • (13) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
  • (14) Bill Shorten has told the union royal commission he would “never be a party to issuing bogus invoices” as he rejected assertions that payments from employers to the Australia Workers’ Union created conflicts of interest during wage negotiations.
  • (15) Oregon’s governor on Wednesday signed trailblazing legislation that will raise the minimum wage to nearly $15 in six years, and do so through a three-tiered system that has not been tried anywhere else in the country.
  • (16) According to calculations by the Resolution Foundation, a couple with two children in which the husband works full-time and the wife works part-time on or just above minimum wage stand to lose a total of £720 a year by 2020.
  • (17) Around 70,000 people currently receive the minimum wage in Scotland.
  • (18) So we were proud in 1997 to put forward the case for Britain’s first minimum wage.
  • (19) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.
  • (20) Port Vale are in deep financial trouble and their administrators will not let him pay half the player's wages.