per year

1. 1.

   by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)

   “he earned $100,000 per annum”

   “we issue six volumes per annum”

   Synonymsper annump.a.each yearannually

Questions about per year

What does per year mean?

per year means "by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)".

What is another word for per year?

Close synonyms include per annum, p.a., each year, annually. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is per year a common word?

per year is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.