You use thus to show that what you are about to mention is the result or consequence of something else that you have just mentioned. Even in a highly skilled workforce some people will be more capable and thus better paid than others. = therefore, hence
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
If you say that something is thus or happens thus you mean that it is, or happens, as you have just described or as you are just about to describe. Joanna was pouring the drink. While she was thus engaged, Charles sat on one of the bar-stools
The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers
in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant)
an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation