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==Origin==

==Origin==

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] salarie, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] salarium pension, salary, from neuter of salarius of salt, from sal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt salt].  Latin salārium, originally [[money]] allowed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_soldier Roman soldiers] for the purchase of salt, hence, their pay

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] salarie, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] salarium pension, salary, from neuter of salarius of salt, from sal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt salt].  Latin salārium, originally [[money]] allowed to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_soldier Roman soldiers] for the purchase of salt, hence, their pay

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century]

==Definition==

==Definition==

* fixed compensation paid regularly for services  

* fixed compensation paid regularly for services  

From the point of a [[business]], salary can also be viewed as the cost of acquiring [[human]] [[resources]] for running operations, and is then termed personnel expense or salary expense. In accounting, salaries are recorded in payroll accounts.

From the point of a [[business]], salary can also be viewed as the cost of acquiring [[human]] [[resources]] for running operations, and is then termed personnel expense or salary expense. In accounting, salaries are recorded in payroll accounts.

==History==

==History==

While there is no first pay stub for the first [[work]]-for-pay [[exchange]], the first salaried work would have required a [[human]] [[society]] advanced enough to have a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter barter] system to allow work to be exchanged for goods or other work. More significantly, it presupposes the [[existence]] of organized employers—perhaps a [[government]] or a [[religious]] body—that would [[facilitate]] work-for-hire exchanges on a regular enough basis to constitute salaried work. From this, most infer that the first salary would have been paid in a village or city during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution Neolithic Revolution], sometime between 10,000 BCE and 6000 BCE.

While there is no first pay stub for the first [[work]]-for-pay [[exchange]], the first salaried work would have required a [[human]] [[society]] advanced enough to have a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter barter] system to allow work to be exchanged for goods or other work. More significantly, it presupposes the [[existence]] of organized employers—perhaps a [[government]] or a [[religious]] body—that would [[facilitate]] work-for-hire exchanges on a regular enough basis to constitute salaried work. From this, most infer that the first salary would have been paid in a village or city during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution Neolithic Revolution], sometime between 10,000 BCE and 6000 BCE.

A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform cuneiform] inscribed clay tablet dated about BCE 3100 provides a record of the daily beer rations for workers in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer beer] is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The [[symbol]] for rations is a human head eating from a bowl. Round and semicircular impressions [[represent]] the measurements.

A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform cuneiform] inscribed clay tablet dated about BCE 3100 provides a record of the daily beer rations for workers in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer beer] is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The [[symbol]] for rations is a human head eating from a bowl. Round and semicircular impressions [[represent]] the measurements.

By the time of the [[Hebrew]] [[Book of Ezra]] (550 to 450 BCE), salt from a [[person]] was synonymous with drawing sustenance, taking pay, or being in that person's [[service]]. At that time salt production was strictly controlled by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch monarchy] or ruling [[elite]]. Depending on the [[translation]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ezra#Chapter_.4 Ezra 4:14], the servants of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artaxerxes_I King Artaxerxes I] of Persia explain their [[loyalty]] variously as "because we are salted with the salt of the palace" or "because we have [[maintenance]] from the king" or "because we are [[responsible]] to the king."

By the time of the [[Hebrew]] [[Book of Ezra]] (550 to 450 BCE), salt from a [[person]] was synonymous with drawing sustenance, taking pay, or being in that person's [[service]]. At that time salt production was strictly controlled by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch monarchy] or ruling [[elite]]. Depending on the [[translation]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ezra#Chapter_.4 Ezra 4:14], the servants of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artaxerxes_I King Artaxerxes I] of Persia explain their [[loyalty]] variously as "because we are salted with the salt of the palace" or "because we have [[maintenance]] from the king" or "because we are [[responsible]] to the king."

Similarly, the Roman [[word]] ''salarium'' linked employment, salt and soldiers, but the exact link is unclear. The least common theory is that the word [[soldier]] itself comes from the [[Latin]] sal dare (to give salt). Alternatively, the Roman historian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder Pliny the Elder] stated as an aside in his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny%27s_Natural_History Natural History]'s [[discussion]] of sea water, that "[I]n [[Rome]]. . .the soldier's pay was originally salt and the [[word]] salary derives from it. . ." [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/31*.html Plinius Naturalis Historia XXX]I. Others note that [[soldier]] more likely derives from the gold solidus, with which soldiers were known to have been paid, and maintain instead that the salarium was either an allowance for the purchase of salt or the price of having soldiers [[conquer]] salt supplies and guard the Salt Roads (Via Salarium).

Similarly, the Roman [[word]] ''salarium'' linked employment, salt and soldiers, but the exact link is unclear. The least common theory is that the word [[soldier]] itself comes from the [[Latin]] sal dare (to give salt). Alternatively, the Roman historian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder Pliny the Elder] stated as an aside in his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny%27s_Natural_History Natural History]'s [[discussion]] of sea water, that "[I]n [[Rome]]. . .the soldier's pay was originally salt and the [[word]] salary derives from it. . ." [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/31*.html Plinius Naturalis Historia XXX]I. Others note that [[soldier]] more likely derives from the gold solidus, with which soldiers were known to have been paid, and maintain instead that the salarium was either an allowance for the purchase of salt or the price of having soldiers [[conquer]] salt supplies and guard the Salt Roads (Via Salarium).

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