percentage vs salary

percentage

noun
  • The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. 

  • A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar. 

  • Benefit or advantage. 

salary

noun
  • A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy. 

verb
  • To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation. 

How often have the words percentage and salary occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )