wages
Example Sentences
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In the three months to December, wages excluding bonuses grew at an annual rate of 4.2%.
From BBC
But what's driving this spending at a time when India's job market has been weak, wages haven't really grown rapidly and overall private consumption, which makes up 60% of GDP, has remained patchy?
From BBC
“But that psychological and emotional wage in the pride economy is very real and very powerful — sometimes, even more than the wages paid in the material economy.”
From Salon
The automobile displaced wagonmakers, yet Henry Ford’s innovations made cars affordable, raised wages and improved daily life.
The slowdown in wages came despite an unemployment rate that was close to its record low throughout the year.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
