The pay is payment for certain services (wages), v.a. for war, military and civil services.

The word pay leads itself off from latin solidus, that from Severus Alexander (222-235 n. Chr.) imported gold coin, which constituted the four-monthly wages of the Kriegers. From the word again the words mercenaries and soldier are derived pay.

After the purge of the army spell, the leaning sequence and the Rittertums 18 formed to toward end. Century recruited mercenaries the mass of the armies. Regulated pay payment began only with the arising of the standing armies. With people liable for military service pay is the wages necessary for the maintenance, which were paid off in former times every ten days.

With the Greeks the pay payment under Perikles, with the Romans begins already among the kings, but from the municipality cashes, from the treasury only since 406 n. Chr. half-yearly or annually. The cash pay, the Salarium (money for salt) taken into consideration, corresponded to the wages of the rural workers. With the Germans the pay payment begins isolated under Karl the large one and was by the Hanse in 13. Century in England around 1050 completely develops.

Paying is the name for the wages of the officials and judges. The designation agitates originally from the pay.

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