money wages

British  

plural noun

1. Also called: nominal wages.  economics wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power Compare real wages

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money wages

Except in the case of minimum-wage workers there is considerable evidence that most employer costs associated with health insurance are passed along to workers in the form of lower money wages.

From Newsweek ● Mar. 23, 2015

Workers bargain for money wages, and a reduction in their money incomes might leave total demand too low to employ all those willing to work.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2010

If these poor men do not demand from you as Christians something more than mere money wages, what do the injunctions about charity mean? 

From The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed by Sir Arthur Helps

If he gets more of these, it does not matter whether he gets more or less money wages; he cannot eat money, or use it in any way except to spend it at shops.

From Political economy by W. Stanley Jevons

It has been remarked several times that the advance of money wages and of money prices made most people feel wealthier, and, feeling wealthier, they were less inclined to grumble over the taxes.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips