"Our jobs are the same, why are the salaries not the same?"
Translation:我们的工作一样,为什么工资不一样?
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Thanks for the response. I did indeed learn the term "薪水" in Taiwan.
To clarify and dig a little deeper, is there any difference in the generality of the terms, to your mind?
In English, "salary" has a narrower meaning than "pay". They overlap in usage, but we don't apply the term "salary" to hourly wages; we use it to describe a fixed amount of pay over a longer period, usually a month or a year (1, 2). I don't get the sense that this limitation applies to "工资", but I still wonder whether it applies to "薪水".
Anyway, if "工资" is more general in meaning than "salary", then perhaps "pay" or "wage(s)" (both of which are broader in meaning than "salary") would be a better introduction to the Chinese here. There's an even stronger rationale to use these latter terms in the back translation.
(In a sense the concept of "wage(s)" can include the idea of "salary", though "wage(s)" often refers to hourly, daily, or weekly pay. "Pay" is the most general term of the three.)
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