Salary and Bonuses: Traders and Bankers A salary is a preset sum of money, paid from an employer to an employee, on a habitual/scheduled basis, often monthly, but it is normally expressed as a yearly figure. Salaries are fixed, no matter the performance of the employee and the sum of which should not fluctuate.

A Trader’s Salary and Bonuses Put in simple terms: A trader is a person or a group, who makes money, from buying financial instruments/assets from the financial market, monitor market trends and sells the same financial instruments when the market trends favor him.