What's the difference between salary and stipend?

Salary


Definition:

  • (a.) Saline
  • (n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
  • (v. t.) To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (2) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
  • (3) The investigators likely to have questions for Clarke, who remains on the payroll until January when he too is entitled to a payoff of a year’s salary.
  • (4) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
  • (5) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
  • (6) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
  • (7) Since leaving the group last April – taking home a reported £3.1m in salary, compensation and future share awards – the work has not stopped.
  • (8) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
  • (9) Senior management salaries have remained frozen since 2008.
  • (10) One shareholder in RBS warned that the bank might now have little option but to increase salaries.
  • (11) In 2010 there were 2,525 City workers with in the €1m-plus pay bracket with average pay of €2.3m and with a much higher ratio, 611% of variable pay to fixed salary.
  • (12) A typical salary for a practice squad member is around US$100,000, significantly less than the Hayne earns in the NRL .
  • (13) Overall earnings growth was even lower, with the average UK salary increasing just 0.5% on 2010 levels once part-time workers are included.
  • (14) According to the BBC, as of last August, Klein's salary was £195,000 and Hadlow's £225,000.
  • (15) After specialization, there appeared to be a tendency for the less academically able students to take on full-time salaried jobs rather than to enter private practice.
  • (16) In 2007, his £450,000 LTIP, combined with basic salary and bonus, left him £1.2m better off - and with nearly double the then salary of the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson.
  • (17) Summiteers might be content with the higher rank and salary … and not really be motivated to summit again.
  • (18) Belinda Lester, from the employment law firm CKFT, agreed: "If they have a bad year, it's very difficult to cut back salaries"; the second big plus from the bank's point of view is "if a significant part of your remuneration is a bonus, these contracts will make it very clear that bonus is only payable if you're not leaving.
  • (19) Because the team is over the salary cap, keeping Basketball Zeppo will cost the Knicks an estimated $2.1 million .
  • (20) The incoming non-executive chairman of IAG, Iberia's Antonio Vazquez Romero, will receive a fee of €235,000 under a similar arrangment, on top of his annual salary of €645,000.

Stipend


Definition:

  • (n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
  • (v. t.) To pay by settled wages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.
  • (2) For now, temporary carers receive rice, secondhand clothes for the children, toiletries and a small stipend, while regular financial help from the government and Unicef is being considered.
  • (3) Litvinenko also received a regular stipend from the oligarch Boris Berezovsky , his friend and patron, who had arranged his escape from Russia in October 2000.
  • (4) We know they’ve cut stipends to foreign fighters and many foreign fighters are in arrears on pay.” Hammond also delivered his strongest critique yet of Russia’s air campaign in Syria , accusing Moscow of deliberately carrying out strikes on schools and hospitals.
  • (5) The purpose of this study was to examine trends in providing specific benefits, namely, stipend, housing, meals, and uniform laundry, to students in full-time clinical education at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1977.
  • (6) Ecomic pressures may force the physician on an Australian stipend to consider working outside his fellowhip or residency.
  • (7) At the time it pointed out that the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who has questioned Barclays executives appearing before the banking standards commission, receives only three-and-a-half times the average clergy stipend of £21,900.
  • (8) Some of these organizations provide a stipend for the relief worker.
  • (9) In addition, recognised refugees have only a matter of days to move out of reception centres once their applications are successful, at which time they stop receiving monthly stipends and risk becoming destitute.
  • (10) You might be able to share your access to an academic journal or pay a small stipend for someone’s internet hosting as a deposit for a future holiday.
  • (11) The material they publish was commissioned and funded not by them but by us, through government research grants and academic stipends.
  • (12) Fellowship stipend sources are much more diverse; federal training grants, professional fees, foundations, medical school funds, and research grants contribute significantly.
  • (13) While the Russian government has ordered deep cuts in its space and hi-tech programmes , Zimin’s Dynasty Foundation had just raised its annual budget to $8.6m to be allocated to research stipends, publishing, and outreach.
  • (14) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!
  • (15) This study demonstrates the significant benefits to both foster parents and the children in their care of providing enhanced services and stipends to foster parents.
  • (16) The judges said it was not merely an anomaly that Berlusconi was paying monthly stipends to witnesses testifying in a trial in which he was indirectly implicated.
  • (17) They have developed working business arrangements – the pirates pay a stipend to be left in peace.
  • (18) Coates joins 23 other MacArthur fellows who will receive a no-strings-attached stipend of $625,000, paid out over five years in quarterly installments.
  • (19) The original purpose of this survey was to obtain sufficient salary information on residency programs to assist us in evaluating our residents' annual stipend.
  • (20) Expect wheelchairs in Downing Street as the coalition does away with the long-established principle that people who have contributed their own national insurance in the past, and then become sick and disabled, should expect a modest stipend from the state in recognition of this.