wage differential

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noun

the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities

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Words nearby wage differential

wafter, wafture, wag, wage, wage determination, wage differential, wage earner, wage incentive, wage-push inflation, wager, wages

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Example sentences from the Web for wage differential

He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
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Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.
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Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.
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The Supreme Court just handed a big holiday present to low-wage workers across America in the form of a giant f*ck you.
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Who will want to enter this profession for a poverty wage and little or no paid time off?
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Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
If the high wage is paid and the short hours are granted, then the price of the thing made, so it seems, rises higher still.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
A record is generally kept of the number of nucleated red cells seen during a differential count of leukocytes.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The differential count is best made upon a film stained with Wright's, Jenner's, or Ehrlich's stain.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

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