wage
Example Sentences
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"Insurance went up," he tells us, "so wages went down."
From BBC
They have budgeted for the transfer fee and having Elliott's wages covered.
From BBC
“Productivity improvements should drive significant increases in real take-home wages. A 1-percentage-point increase in annual productivity growth would double standards of living within a single generation.”
From Los Angeles Times
Those recently arrived immigrants tend to earn lower wages and have less education, the data show.
A White House spokesman noted that manufacturing productivity ticked upward in recent quarters and that workers’ wage hikes outpaced inflation over the past year.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
