Wage in a sentence

According to Living Wage for US, which released its in November, Buncombe County’s living wage is $24.08 per hour.

Applying that percentage increase to the current minimum wage of $11.73 produces a new minimum wage effective Jan.

For example, a $15 an hour wage in San Francisco has the same buying power as a $6.50 wage in Birmingham, Alabama.

First, if a person is not being paid minimum wage that can be a wage violation, under federal or state law, she said.

For example, last week, Walmart announced they’re raising their minimum wage, their starting wage to $14 an hour.

The living wage in Calgary is now $24.45, almost $10 per hour, or 63 per cent higher than Alberta's minimum wage.

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

Despite the employment loss, poverty dropped substantially, and the total wage payments to workers (the wage bill) rose.

It was gathered that both the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage exist in the United Kingdom.

The average daily wage for wage employees in the West Bank was 94.2 shekels compared with 61.3 shekels in the Gaza Strip.

Wage theft perhaps affects low-wage workers most adversely, because they rarely have the means to contest such pilferage.

Note that minimum wage earners comprise only a fraction of the 62.7 percent who are wage and salary workers.

One study found the average low-wage worker in Seattle lost $125 a month because the minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour.

Supporters of minimum wage increases draw a direct line between wage per hour and total wages and ignore the “per hour” part.

Maybe it means nominal wages, because when you look at wage increases and inflation together, wage inflation is not our issue.

The Isle of Man Government previously committed to align the minimum wage with the living wage by 2025.

Can you sue a company for wage theft and how do you report wage theft are some of the questions that many employees might have.

The measure was put forward by One Fair Wage, a not-for-profit that works to end the subminimum wage.

An example is in Connecticut, where low-wage workers are getting a $1-per-hour raise this week, bringing the minimum wage to $12.

Fortunately, there is a movement of tipped and subminimum-wage workers to enact One Fair Wage that is gaining traction nationwide.