money wages

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

Example Sentences

TRUMP, boasting about low unemployment rates: “This election is about jobs. And the beauty of the jobs, people that were stuck in one job, didn’t like it, they now got six different alternatives …They get one they like, and they are making more money. Wages are going up.”

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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.

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Friday morning’s report tells us what is happening with nominal or money wages, the total number of dollars in your paycheck, with no adjustment for inflation.

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It was on the cusp of the big money wages.

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If you doubt it, just compare the near impossibility of actually cutting money wages with the ease of letting them sink relative to a rising cost of living, something so doable that it is being ubiquitously done across Britain and Europe right now.

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