wages

Example Sentences

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The CFOs expected the wages they pay to rise by 3.4% over the coming 12 months, a slowdown from the 3.5% increase seen in March.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Since the CPI is used to set federal and state policy or adjust wages, this matters.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026

Those schemes see employers divert wages into a pension and contribute some money themselves.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Sanders lost out on roughly $40 million in total wages from where he was projected to be drafted, and signed a deal totaling $4.6 million over his first four years.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

“How about fair wages to clean up the village? It’d help out a few of us, at any rate.”

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate