money wages

plural noun

economics wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power Also callednominal wages Compare real wages

Economists long ago discovered the necessity of distinguishing between money wages and real wages.

Now, we shall see that it is requisite to distinguish between money wages and real wages.

And there must these labourers go, with their money wages, to buy this same corn, at the enhanced retail price.

If the price of corn remained low, money wages would not rise, and general profits could not fall.

The money wages of labour are, I apprehend, generally regulated by facility of production.

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