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

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

If corn or cotton becomes dearer, the wages of every workman are really lessened; because he can buy less corn or cotton with his money wages.

From Political economy by W. Stanley Jevons

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 Chester Arthur Phillips