also: サラーリーマン · サラリマン · サラーリマン · サラリー・マン
office worker; company employee; salaryman
Refers to a salaried company employee, especially a white-collar office worker. It often evokes the stereotypical Japanese company employee and is traditionally male-coded, though 会社員 is more neutral and general.
wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from salaryman
父は東京の会社でサラリーマンをしている。
My father works as a company employee in Tokyo.
多くのサラリーマンが朝の満員電車で通勤する。
Many office workers commute on crowded morning trains.
I plan to become a company employee after graduating from university.
He has kept up the salaryman lifestyle for ten years.
He quit being a company employee and opened his own shop.
The main character was an ordinary company employee.
サラリーマン is a casual, slightly dated term for a male salaried office worker, while 社員 is neutral and applies to anyone employed by a company.
サラリーマン is a casual, everyday term for a salaried office worker, while 勤労者 is a formal, statistical term for anyone who works for a living.