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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Example Sentences

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, then, the money wages of labour should fall, whilst every commodity on which the wages of labour were expended rose, the labourer would be doubly affected, and would be soon totally deprived of subsistence.

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

For small money wages much of this labour could be attracted to the mills.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various

In other words, there has been an inverse movement of money wages and of the prices of commodities, the one going up while the other went down.

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