tiền công

Người làm vườn nhận tiền công sau một ngày làm việc.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Wages; pay for labor: Money paid to a worker, especially for manual or unskilled work, often calculated by the hour, day, or piece of work completed. It typically refers to compensation for physical labor or services rendered.
   • Payment for a service: Money given to someone for performing a specific task or service.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Tiền công làm vườn một ngày là 300.000 đồng. (The daily wage for gardening work is 300,000 VND.)
  • Anh thợ sửa ống nước tính tiền công rất hợp lý. (The plumber charges a very reasonable rate for his labor.)
  • Chúng tôi trả tiền công cho chị giúp việc vào cuối tháng. (We pay the house helper's wages at the end of the month.)

Advanced Usage

• The term often implies a direct, sometimes short-term, exchange of money for labor or a specific task, contrasting with "lương" (salary), which is a fixed regular payment, typically for professional or long-term employment.
• "Tiền công nhật" or "làm công nhật": refers specifically to daily wages or day labor.

Variants and Related Words

• Lương (n): Salary; a fixed regular payment, typically monthly, for professional or office employment.
  • Cô ấy nhận lương vào ngày mùng 5 hàng tháng. (She receives her salary on the 5th of every month.)
• Thù lao (n): Remuneration, fee; a more formal term for payment for services, often used for professional or intellectual work.
  • Thù lao cho buổi tư vấn sẽ được thỏa thuận trước. (The fee for the consultation will be agreed upon in advance.)

Synonyms

• Wages
• Pay
• Labor cost
• Earnings (from work)

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Làm công ăn lương: To work for a salary/wages; to be an employee.
  • Phần lớn thời gian anh ấy làm công ăn lương cho một công ty nước ngoài. (For most of his career, he worked for a salary at a foreign company.)
• Hợp đồng khoán công: A contract for a specific job or piece of work, where payment is based on completing the entire task rather than time spent.
  • Họ ký hợp đồng khoán công xây dựng bức tường. (They signed a contract to build the wall for a fixed price.)