danger money

British  

noun

1. extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs

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Example Sentences

On 9 January, it is announced that more than 1,000 prison service staff in Northern Ireland are to receive special annual danger money payments because of the threat from dissident republicans.

From BBC

But union officials say they want bigger numbers recruited because of Brexit, as well as better night pay and danger money.

From BBC

In urgent tones, they discuss visas, danger, money.

From New York Times

Under a ragged tent pitched outside the Leche Vakita plant, strikers invoked the 20-32 deal, before a rail-thin driver pulled out a neatly printed list of other demands: paid overtime when trucks break down, life insurance – and danger money for out-of-town routes which take them through the most dangerous killing fields of Mexico’s drug war.

From The Guardian

Asked why he chose Iraq, he said: “My big difference is that I go into difficult, dangerous places … worth the danger money.”

From The Guardian