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

The German export policy maintained itself only by holding up prices at home, which meant an increased cost of living and a rise in money wages.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.

The laboring man whose money wages increased but one-half, while the cost of living doubled, could not continue to provide for his family's wants so fully as before.

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

Under such circumstances no policy can be more absurd, than that of forcibly regulating money wages by the price of food, as is frequently done, by misapplication of the poor laws.

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