Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between salary and the level of honesty among employees of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences. The research method used was descriptive-analytical and the statistical population included all official and contractual employees of the university. Also, simple random sampling was carried out using the Cochran method with 145 people. In this study, to collect information based on the main hypothesis and four sub-hypotheses, a questionnaire containing seven questions in the general section and twenty-three questions in the specialized section was designed based on the Likert scale, in which each item has five options in this spectrum, and the validity of the tools was confirmed through content validity and its reliability using the Cronbach's alpha test. Based on the results, it can be said that employees of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences believe that five variables of salary and wages, high salary, inequality in salary payment, disproportion between salary and benefits received and work performed, and employers' disrespect for them, have a direct and significant relationship with their honesty in the workplace, and it showed that dissatisfaction with salary and wages leads to a decrease in organizational trust and an increase in unethical behaviors. This study emphasizes the importance of designing a transparent, proportionate, and merit-based payment system and shows that fairness in payment is not only a key factor in increasing job satisfaction, but also plays an important role in improving the ethics and honesty of employees. It is suggested that managers pay special attention to the dimensions of organizational justice and its effects on individual and group behaviors in salary and wage-related policies.