base wage

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For hourly workers, employees and employers could agree to reduce the worker’s base wage to their state’s legal minimum and make up any difference in compensation through extra hours of fake “overtime.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Limiting base wage increases and using more tax-advantaged overtime hours instead can restrain employers’ total costs while raising workers’ take-home pay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The base wage and the ethics bonus are in effect a player's total salary.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

The UAW's new agreement with GM grants a 25% increase in base wage through April 2028 and will cumulatively raise the top wage by 33%, compounded with estimated cost-of-living adjustments to over $42 an hour.

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2023

The base wage scale covering workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport barely tops the 2023 $19-an-hour minimum wage there and is likely to fall below it by 2024.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022