Below you will find example sentences with "wage increase". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Wage Increase in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: wage
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.7 words

Words in this phrase

wage increase

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • wage can mean: An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of... Frequent word
  • increase can mean: (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

0 50 wage increase 1× 000 provisional wage increase aimed at 1× 13 75 wage increase mohuddin says 1× 2 percent wage increase would have 1× an upcoming wage increase she won 1× fixing the wage increase for teachers 1× for any wage increase or award 1× further negating wage increase 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a recommendation from 1× and while wages 1× another alternative for 1× before announcing its 1× cost of child 1× gbajabiamila said the 1×

Common sentence endings:

11 wage increase 1× 3pc of turnover 1× 4 5 years 1× 4 wage increase 1× 50 wage increase 1× a living wage 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

union 6× minimum 5× government 4× next 3× workers 3× pay 3× says 2× upcoming 2× added 2× employers 2× unions 2× years 2×

Related phrases

minimum wage percent increase living wage cent increase wage increases wage growth gradually increase sharp increase

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around wage:

wage increases 11× wage growth 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

wage growth vulnerable people vulgar latin voting system voting rights voting machines

Just after it in the phrase index:

wage increases wagner fighters wait times waiting list waiting lists waiting room

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

wage increases wage growth

Same ending:

percent increase cent increase gradually increase sharp increase

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "wage increase" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 0 50 wage increase, 000 provisional wage increase aimed at, union, minimum and government stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with minimum wage, percent increase, living wage, wage increases and wage growth, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with wage increase

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Cost of child care when those workers wages went up, further negating wage increase. (14 words)

Some economists were predicting another rate hike next week following the minimum-wage increase. (14 words)

GMB Union is going on strike after Amazon offered a 50 pence (about $0.50) wage increase. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

What this wage measure seeks to fix will not end in the few weeks this wage increase is in place,” added Hahn, emphasizing the need for long-term changes to make health care and social service work more stable, full-time and better paid. (44 words)

And while wages for Woburn’s teachers are determined by the school committee — the organization that eventually granted the city’s educators a 13.75% wage increase — Mohuddin says that when he is mayor, educators in the city will no longer be overlooked. (43 words)

A recommendation from a pay study led Lehigh County to potentially spend $2.4 million to update the non-union pay scale and step chart for 2024 so that all non-union county employees will receive a minimum 4% wage increase. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

Ruth McMillan of Williams Lake, B.C., says even with an upcoming wage increase, she won't quite be making a living wage.

He added that talks between the government, employers and unions on next year’s minimum wage increase and wage developments for the coming three years were continuing.

This would entail fixing the wage increase for teachers at 120 percent of the nationwide average wage in Estonia by 2027, as per the coalition agreement.

What this wage measure seeks to fix will not end in the few weeks this wage increase is in place,” added Hahn, emphasizing the need for long-term changes to make health care and social service work more stable, full-time and better paid.

The company will enter into wage negotiations with the labor union representing Fred Meyer employees next week, and they say the company is proposing a wage increase for all their workers.

Getting a wage increase have been a long-fought fight for unions and liberal advocacy groups who have supported raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour nationwide.

The wage increase would have raised the hourly rate from $6 to $8.50 but in a surprise announcement on Tuesday, government postponed the increase, citing an undisclosed policy matter as the reason.

And while wages for Woburn’s teachers are determined by the school committee — the organization that eventually granted the city’s educators a 13.75% wage increase — Mohuddin says that when he is mayor, educators in the city will no longer be overlooked.

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Another alternative for the government to consider is raising to finance the anticipated wage increase, but this decision would have repercussions for consumers and their finances.

A recommendation from a pay study led Lehigh County to potentially spend $2.4 million to update the non-union pay scale and step chart for 2024 so that all non-union county employees will receive a minimum 4% wage increase.

Before announcing its Q3 earnings, General Motors published details of its latest offer to the union’s leadership team, including a wage increase of 23% over 4.5 years.

Cost of child care when those workers wages went up, further negating wage increase.

Gbajabiamila said the Federal Government, the TUC and the NLC would establish a joint committee to review the proposal for any wage increase or award and establish a framework and timeline for implementation.

GMB Union is going on strike after Amazon offered a 50 pence (about $0.50) wage increase.

He mentioned food costs have risen between five and seven per cent, and “I don’t think anyone got a wage increase anywhere near that,” Clendening said.

He said the upcoming minimum wage increase will affect about a third of his 1,500 staff, and cost around 3pc of turnover.

National UAW leaders said in a video Wednesday that the union’s deal with Ford includes an immediate 11% wage increase.

Norwegian labour leaders and employers’ representatives fundamentally disagree over whether a 5.2 percent wage increase would have given workers the “real pay growth” they sought.

Some economists were predicting another rate hike next week following the minimum-wage increase.

The Organised Labour has firmly rejected President Bola Tinubu’s proposed N25,000 provisional wage increase aimed at mitigating the impact of the recent removal of petrol subsidy.

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