Summary: Do salaries create conflict, too? Source: Gratisography Salaries have also been around a while. Our word “salary” comes from a Latin word for salt. Roman soldiers were given “salt money” as pay; we still may say that workers are “worth their salt,” meaning that they earn their pay. Salaries are set monthly, or annually. Salaries became more common during the industrial revolution. They were used to pay administrators and managers whose work was difficult to measure, but […]
