pay packet 
noun British
1An envelope containing an employee’s wages.It was handed over in a brown envelope, a true pay packet....
- It was not a 9 to 5 job by any means, neither was it a job that you could be sure you got a weekly wage, or monthly pay packet either, you needed a side line.
- Because there will be 27 pays this year instead of the usual 26, many public and private sector employees will receive an extra pay packet.
1.1A salary or income: she was looking for other jobs to supplement her pay packet...
- He saw his pay packet fall by E105,000 to E861,000 with his performance bonus cut in half.
- ‘The size of someone's pay packet shouldn't dictate whether they give their family natural food,’ they say.
- As times become uncertain, once comfortably-off families are learning to live without a steady monthly pay packet.