Wages, salary and benefits 'My name's Luigi and I'm a hotel manager in Venice. I get paid a salary every month. In summer, we're very busy, so we do overtime - work a lot of extra hours. The pay for this is quite good. Working in a hotel, we also get some nice perks -for example, free meals!' 'I'm Ivan and I work as a waiter in Prague. I like my job even if I don't earn very much: I get paid wages every week by the restaurant. We get the minimum wage -the lowest amount allowed by law. But we also get tips -money that customers leave in addition to the bill. Some tourists are very generous!' 'Hi, I'm Catherine, and I'm a saleswoman in luxury goods, based in Paris. I get a basic salary , plus commission -a percentage on everything I sell. If I sell more than a particular amount in a year, I also get a bonus , which is nice. There are some good fringe benefits with this job: I get a company car , a BMW; there's a health plan to pay the costs of medical treatment if I get ill; and the company makes payments for my pension -money that I'll get regularly after I stop working. So, with the bonuses, the car, the health plan and the pension, I've got a very nice benefits package . And the working conditions are good too: I have a nice office and I don't have to travel too much.' Exercise Xavier and Yvonne are talking about Xavier's new job as a photocopier salesman. Sometimes, they don't use the exact names for things that they are talking about. Complete these expressions, using items from the text above. 1. X: I get paid every month, rather than every week. Y: I see. You get a ........., not wages.