What does "salary" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.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. This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak. Note: Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages.
2. 3.To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.