wages

Cultural  

1. Payment for services to a worker, usually remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis.

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Example Sentences

Crews are poorly protected throughout the industry, with unpaid wages and abandonment by owners all-too frequent.

From BBC

Most of the borrowers who are in default and see their wages garnished don’t actually need to go through this painful process.

From Barron's

That value is then distributed either to labor as wages and benefits, or to capital as profits and interest.

From The Wall Street Journal

Abandoned for months on their fishing boat off West Africa, Indonesian sailor Surono and his shipmates face a dilemma: return home without almost a year's wages or stay on the docked vessel.

From Barron's

Union wages helped the 48-year-old single mother support her daughter through nursing school and her son through high school.

From The Wall Street Journal