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noun

  1. Sometimes shortened to: award.  (in Australia and New Zealand) statutory minimum pay for a particular group of workers

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How would training women to ask for higher pay help her, as someone who earns a set award wage and has very little power to negotiate anything?

From The Guardian

Public sector employers also expect to impose pay freezes or rewards of 1% at most, while the balance of private sector employers were preparing to award wage rises of 2%.

From The Guardian

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