Other forms: perks
A perk is a nice extra that comes with a job. The perks of the job, a few perks, free lunches and other perks.
It is not part of the pay but is part of the package: a company car, free coffee, a gym membership. Some perks are taxable as benefits in kind, which surprises people. Perk is short for perquisite, an old word for something claimed by right of office. Note the unrelated verb perk up, meaning to become livelier, and perky, which is the same family and describes cheerfulness.
1nounperkA nice extra that comes with a job.
“Free gym membership is one of the perks of working at the bank.”
perk is a job benefit.
Also accepted in games: benefit
Perk is a clipping of perquisite, from Latin perquirere, to search thoroughly for. A perquisite was a thing acquired by right of office, and the clipping is about two hundred years old.
a clipping of perquisite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA