Salary

In olden times, “salary” meant complaint, sadness , then mercy , privilege , gift . This was the nature of the salary that free servants received for their service with the Old Russian princes, in the form of various land holdings.

Over time, when free service became involuntary and became conscription, local dachas and land benefits were a reward for the regular serving of this conscription, service people acquired the legal right to this salary , which was most clearly expressed in the decrees on the indicated part of the widow ^[1] ( see also Manor ).

In Old Russian, the word alafa was also used ^[2] .

The salary of the great and specific princes to their officials

In Russia, under the great and specific princes, people who served in the field of administration and court received remuneration in the form of feed and other income for their service, and the provision of such a profitable position was considered as a reward and the position itself was called a salary ^[3] .

With the destruction of the feeding system, salaries were assigned to posts .

Salary of service people

In the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, service people received monetary or local salaries , titles and other rewards for their service.

Salary to city nobles and boyar children

In the Russian state of the XVI and XVII centuries, city ​​nobles and children of the boyars were given a monetary salary:

• annual , the so-called “money from the Chetie” ^[4] or a quarterly cash salary , and those who were paid were called “Quarters” ^[5] ;
• “For services and parcels” and each time for the recipient’s special petition - “money with the city” (city money) ^[6] .

XIX century

In the 19th century, salary was called in the Russian legislative language only part of the remuneration received by a person in the public service . All together, the types of cash disbursements for the service, made both from the amounts of the state treasury and from other sources (from zemstvo amounts, city and public incomes, from special funds of individual departments, etc.), were called content . The types of content included:

• salary;
• mess allowance;
• housing money for states and special purposes;
• cash leases made in the service of the pension and any supplementary content under any name.

This difference was of great practical importance in the appointment of pensions and supplementary salaries (both were assigned depending on the amount of salaries ), in enumerations and in many other cases. Usually the maintenance of employees was made up of three elements:

1. salary (main element),
2. table money
3. apartment money or apartments in kind.

The size of each of these elements was determined in the states established for each department and institution . In some positions, however, only salaries were made , or salaries together with canteens, or salaries together with apartment ones. As an exception, salaries of maintenance were not appointed depending on the position, but according to rank , or according to special Highest orders, or at the discretion of the authorities; the latter took place only in relation to clerical officials and ministers who could not be classified as officials in the proper sense. Freelance employees received support as agreed with their superiors. The quantitative ratio of the three main elements of the content was found out from the decisions relating to the cases when officials received the content in one total amount. In these cases, 1/4 of the annual salary was considered apartment if the employee did not have a public office, and of the remaining 3/4, one half was considered a salary and the other half was table money; out of the total maintenance of persons using the public premises, one half is included in the salary , and the other in table money.

Issuance of maintenance was carried out on a monthly basis, and salaries were issued for the expiring month, canteens - for the month in advance, apartment - for the third of the year in advance. Searches of salaries , canteens, and housing money, depending on the death, resignation, or abandonment of state officials, were taken into account by the treasury. In addition to the salary for five years of service (in the amount of 20 to 25%), one of the main advantages of service in remote and privileged areas was. In those cases where it was allowed to combine the two posts, the official received for both posts only salary and table money. Special provisions existed for cases of post correction and for vacations . Persons under trial and investigation , the content was reduced on the basis of special rules. Persons left behind the state were paid a salary (but not all of the content) during the year or until they were appointed to the position. The boss who, for no particular legal reason, will delay the salary following to his subordinate or other cash or other extraditions, was subjected to a monetary penalty in favor of the offended subordinate, twice as much as the amount or price of the wrongly detained ^[7]

In Warfare

For salaries in the military department - see cash allowance .

• Kokan is a mythical country of plenty and idleness in French and English literature of the 12th-13th centuries. A country of wine rivers, where labor is punished and idleness is paid.
• Financial independence
• Passive income

• Salary // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.