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

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 Ricardo, David

The mere amount of money he receives for his exertions, irrespective of what the money will exchange for, forms his money wages.

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

If the price of corn remained low, money wages would not rise, and general profits could not fall.

From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by Ricardo, David