「薪水」的英文用法大比較：pay、wage、salary你領的是哪種？

工作百百種，領薪方式也大有不同！因此英文說法也會不一樣，下面列出4種常見的「薪資英文」，來看看他們的用法差異吧：

💰 pay 當名詞時，統稱所有薪水，包含 salary 和 wage。

Hillary loves working at the art museum, but the pay is not very good.
希拉蕊熱愛他在美術館的工作，但是薪水卻差強人意。

💰wage 指一時間單位內按小時、天數或周次所累積的薪資，常用於打工、工讀、實習這類算「時薪」或是「日薪」的職位。

Bernard found that the wage for teaching English in Taiwan was far higher than that of his last job.
伯納德發現在台灣教英文的薪水遠遠高於他的前一份工作。

💰salary 正職工作所領的固定月薪、年薪等多用此單字表示

Cynthia was offered a salary of $500,000 a year.
辛希雅的年薪是50萬元。

💰income 指的是「整體收入」收入 收益

It's best to save at least 20% of your income every month.
最好將你每個月至少百分之 20 的收入存起來。

Ian spent most of his income on his car.
伊恩把大部分的收入都花在車子上。