wage rate
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wage rates
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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
In recent years, states have used the extra money to increase the wage rate for home health workers.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
Amazon's latest increase will take effect as a new national living wage rate comes in.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023
But that wage rate falls below the $19.06 per hour minimum wage that takes effect for other Sea-Tac workers on Jan. 1.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
For an increase cannot be made in the wage rate of one class without a proportionate decrease in that of others.
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
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