salary vs take-home

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. 

take-home

noun
  • Take-home pay. 

  • Anything that one is given to bring home from an institutional setting. 

  • An examination or assignment to be completed outside the classroom. 

  • A supply of methadone that someone under treatment is allowed to take home instead of coming in to a treatment center every day. 

adj
  • That may be taken home; designed or made to be taken home. 

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