wages

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

Example Sentences

Sticky inflation backs the case for higher rates, but as living costs rise policymakers want to see commensurate growth in wages.

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Young farm women lived in boardinghouses, working 12-14 hour days for cash wages.

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In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill secured her gubernatorial win after championing the Child Care for Every Community Act, which caps family costs and raises wages for care workers.

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However, the Office for Budget Responsibility has now confirmed that although it did indeed downgrade productivity, it also predicted this would be "offset" by higher wages increasing the government's tax revenues.

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Because “the demand for woven cloth could fluctuate wildly,” she writes, “as quickly as weavers remembered the good wages, memories of periods of acute hardship came flooding back.”

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