Possible Clues:

• Regular payment to a member of the clergy
• Allowance for clergy, e.g.
• Payment of small gratuity on completion
• Ph.D. student's pay, usually
• Allowance from crown included in remit
• Payment to a graduate assistant
• Regular money as reward, put in mail
• Soldier's pay
• In church it pays to cut off the top and leave the very last bit only
• Pay raise — it's Pasquale's premier objective