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 these poor men do not demand from you as Christians something more than mere money wages, what do the injunctions about charity mean? 

From The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed by Helps, Arthur, Sir

The expense of these increased money wages falls wholly on the capitalist.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart

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