wage rate
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The plant’s top wage rate for regular production workers is about $22 an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But it is expensive: Farms must pay the adverse effect wage rate, a federally set pay rate that is more than twice the regular federal minimum wage.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025
The wage rate rose on 1 April from £10.42 to £11.44 for over-21s.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2024
"While it appears to be a hot number on the actual number of people employed, the wage rate is not increasing as fast."
From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2023
With a wage rate lower than the commercial, it would disturb no private industries by luring away their workmen, and with nothing made to sell there would be no competition with private products.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)
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