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

Besides, a mere increase in money wages may mean little or nothing, unless the increased wages possess increased purchasing power, and there be at the same time an upward tendency in the standard of living.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

In the one case by a fall, and in the other by a rise in money wages, the natural equilibrium between profits and wages would be restored.

From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

In speaking of the fall of wages you only once mention corn wages, but must always mean corn wages and not money wages.

From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by David Ricardo