# income (financial)

money that is received from work

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: economic  ·  Arena: income

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic), [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort), [receive](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-receive.communication)

**Through:** work exerts effort and money is received through that process, forming income

**Novel properties:**
- receipt of economic resource
- result of labor compensation
- flow from effort to reward

## Examples
- In 2023, a software engineer at Google received $180,000 in salary for developing Android features. *(economics)*
- The Nile River floodplain agriculture in ancient Egypt yielded grain surpluses collected as tax-in-kind by pharaohs. *(institutions)*
- A nurse in Helsinki earned €3,200 monthly from shift work at Mehiläinen Hospital in 2022. *(everyday life)*

## Used by
- [rent](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rent.income) (L18)

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