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Sal is latin (and also French to this day) for salt. Salary referred originally to the amount of salt you received as payment.
In other romantic languages too! like portuguese
There are no ancient sources stating that salary was literal salt bring handed to roman soldiers, I believe the current best theory is that it was "money for salt" that was given to soldiers.