What is the difference between wages and salary?

The salary paid monthly by employers, but the wages are paid on a daily basis on behalf of the working time or volume.

Salary given by employers monthly and wages given by on daily basis on behalf of there work time or volume.

Wages are Direct Expenses and Debited to Trading Account. Salaries are indirect expenses and Debited to P&L account. We pay wages on daily basis or weekly but we pay salaries on monthly basis.

Wages are paid to a person who is not a daily worker he is paid for only time he worked for as its is paid only for day to day work . Whereas salary is a fix amount paid to the person who is working for the fix time daily

The person receiving a salary is not paid a smaller amount for working fewer hours, nor is he paid more for working overtime. Someone who is paid wages receives a pay rate per hour, multiplied by the number of hours worked. This person is considered to be a "non-exempt" employee.

salary is paid a fixed amount in each pay period, with the total of these fixed payments over a full year

 Wages are earned based on the total worked hour

The main difference between them is that a salaried person is paid a fixed amount per pay period ,but awage earner is paid by the hour. _A person who is paid a salary is paid a fixed amount per in each pay period, this person is considered to be an exempt employee.*There is no linkage the amount paid and the number of hours worked