Remuneration is the pay or otherfinancial compensation provided in exchange for anemployee'sservices performed (not to be confused with giving (away), or donating, or the act of providing to).^[1] Remuneration is one component ofreward management. In the UK, it can also refer to the automatic division of profits attributable to members in a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP).

Remuneration can include:

• Commission
• Employee benefits
• Employee stock ownership
• Executive compensation
  • Deferred compensation
• Salary
  • Performance-linked incentives
• Wage
• Mandatory compensation payable by an employer to an employee for the benefit obtained from a patent for an invention made by an employee

For wagewithholding purposes underU.S. income tax law, the term "wage" means remuneration (with certain exceptions) for services performed by an employee for an employer.^[2]

Under thefaithless servant doctrine, a doctrine under the laws of a number of states in the United States, and most notablyNew York State law, an employee who acts unfaithfully towards his or her employer must forfeit all remuneration received during the period of disloyalty.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

• Fiscal illusion
• Payroll tax

• The dictionary definition ofremuneration at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition ofemolument at Wiktionary

• Employment compensation

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