remittance vs salary

remittance

noun
  • Money which is sent to someone, typically to someone in another country. 

  • The act of sending money to someone. 

  • Money sent by a foreign worker back to their home country. 

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 remittance and salary occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )