the.com/compensation
Money a company gives you so you stop asking about meaning.
means Payment made to balance out work, loss, or damage — the thing that's supposed to make it even.
from From Latin compensare, 'to weigh one thing against another,' built from com- ('together') and pensare, 'to weigh' (the frequentative of pendere, 'to weigh' or 'to pay' — the same root that gives us 'pension' and 'pendulum'). The image underneath is a literal balance scale: one weight of loss or labor on one side, a counterweight of money on the other, until the beam sits level. English borrowed it in the 1600s mostly in that exact financial-and-legal 'making up for' sense.
- legal roots
- Workers comp laws began in 1880s Germany, under Bismarck
- hidden half
- Benefits can be 30%+ of total pay, rarely advertised
- negotiation gap
- Most people never counter their first offer
- word twin
- Compensation and compensate both imply something was lost first