of or relating to a minimum wage.
minimum-wage demands.
paid or earning a minimum wage.
a minimum-wage worker.
paying a minimum wage.
a minimum-wage job.
First recorded in 1855–60
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California’s statewide minimum wage is set to rise next year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
California’s minimum wage automatically increases each year to keep pace with inflation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
"Young people who take up part-time work on minimum wage earn £100 less than those claiming sickness benefits", is the Times' top story.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Foreign farmworkers, he said, routinely worked seven days a week, skipped lunch breaks to maximise piece-rate earnings and were often paid below the national minimum wage.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
"After you left I was thinking...I really could use a hand. But I could only pay minimum wage, and only a couple shifts per week."
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
Hare coursers were linked to crimes involving significant sums of money, says Lacks-Kelly, not "minimum-wage crimes".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
And teens are competing with older workers for similar jobs: People aged 25 and over accounted for 56.9% of minimum-wage workers in 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
She was facing a demand to repay £37,000 while supporting herself through her studies in a minimum-wage job.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The fast-food industry was a leading employer of minimum-wage workers, so if they could survey restaurants on either side of the border before and after New Jersey’s wage increase, they could gauge the effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
She had lost her job—a minimum-wage post packing Styrofoam cups into cartons—when she’d gone into the hospital to have the baby, and had no money for formula.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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