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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

fourchette de salaires

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fuʁ.ʃɛt də sa.lɛʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Salary band/ˈsæl.ər.i bænd/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Cette offre d'emploi se situe dans une fourchette de salaires attractive."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A designated range of compensation, establishing the minimum and maximum pay rates for a specific group of jobs or levels within an organization.

    "New hires are typically placed at the lower end of their designated salary band."
  2. 2

    A tiered bracket used in organizational governance to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness for remuneration.

    "The executive committee approved a restructuring of all corporate salary bands to reflect inflation."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'salary', derived from the Latin 'salarium' (money given to Roman soldiers to buy salt), with 'band', derived from Germanic roots meaning a range, strip, or delimited category. The compound emerged in late 20th-century corporate human resources terminology to formalize hierarchical compensation structures.

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