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Proof your time is for sale, conveniently priced just below your sanity.
means A check or, more commonly now, a direct deposit, representing the wages an employer pays an employee for work over a set period.
from A plain American compound from the early 20th century, simply welding 'pay' to 'check.' 'Pay' arrived in English from Old French 'paier,' which traces back to Latin 'pacare,' meaning 'to pacify' or 'appease' — the same root as 'peace,' since paying a debt settles it and keeps everyone calm. 'Check' in the financial sense comes from 'check' as in 'to verify or control,' which itself descends from the chess term 'checkmate' (Persian 'shah mat,' 'the king is helpless'). So your paycheck is, etymologically, a peace offering you must verify.
- origin
- Named for paper checks workers literally cashed each week
- taxes
- Vanishes before you ever touch the full number
- to-paycheck
- Most adults live one missed one from chaos
- direct deposit
- Now invisible, just a number quietly nudging upward
walmart associate weekly pay — typical hourly worker in us receives $15-16/hour paid bi-weekly
major league baseball salary — average mlb player earns $4.91 million annually as of 2023
fortune 500 ceo bonus — s&p 500 ceos averaged $14.5 million total compensation in 2022