A question about salary/wage

Gene93Does "What's your monthly salary?" sound odd to you?

No. It sounds okay to me.

Gene93I think salaries can be monthly and annual.

Well, yes, and the conversion factor is 12.

Here's a cultural note.
Questions like "What's your monthly salary?" are pretty taboo in social contexts.

You'd only get asked this eg in a bank, if you are applying for a loan.

I know, Clive. I am just not sure which one sounds better to native speakers. Yes, "salary" is usually the annual amount. What do you call the monthly amount of money someone earns?

CalifJimI have never heard of a salary that was not quoted as an annual amount.

In Japan it is not...which always forces me to use your conversion factor in my deliberations.

We often use the term 'pay'.
eg my monthly pay, eg my pay-cheque.

Many people are actually paid every 2 weeks.

When I have worked in China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Lebanon, and Oman, my salary has always been quoted as a monthly sum. In the UK, it's always been quoted as an annual sum, though it has been paid monthly.

My British state pension is quoted as a weekly sum, but is paid monthly. My British teacher's pension is quoted as an annual sum; like my state pension, it is paid mo

fivejedjonGo figure.

It seems that in the Anglo-Saxon world salaries are quoted as annual amounts even though they are of course paid monthly. Elsewhere, like Scandinavia, salaries and pensions are usually quoted as monthly amounts.

CB

It seems so. If I say "They offered me fifty thousand", a colleague in England will take it to mean "fifty thousand pounds a year", while one in the Czech Republic will take it to mean "fifty thousand crowns a month".

Off-topic - the use of the word thousand reminds me of how times have changed. When I started work in the 1960s, I thought I was doing well when I was offered seven

Salaries are usually monthly amounts in my corner of the world and one has to be a little more specific. "My annual/monthly salary"... Well, if someone said to me they had offered them $100,000, I would assume "$100, 000 a year."