How to Use living wage in a Sentence

living wage

noun

• He was barely earning a living wage.
• What types of jobs pay enough to meet the living wage in Texas?
  — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026
• Maybe that means hiring full-time refs and paying them a living wage.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
• New groves dot the hills above town, though their owners don’t yet make a living wage from them.
  — Zoey Poll, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Not many, if anyone, can make a true living wage by these methods.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
• For all the growth, players aren’t yet earning a living wage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
• The journey from high school to a living wage is challenging for many young adults.
  — Khaitsa Wasiyo, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• But for workers to pay their own way, businesses would have to pay them a living wage.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• This fee goes directly to staff payroll and provides a living wage to our team.
  — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025
• Its garment workers are paid a living wage and much of its fabric is deadstock.
  — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2024
• Bush’s belief in the need for a living wage was strengthened by her battles with poverty.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 11 Oct. 2022
• Those from the left, however, are concerned that workers will not be paid a living wage.
  — Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• In your case, this means letting your clients know about your commitment to paying a living wage.
  — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• Then the second thing that was important to us was to find an industry that pays a living wage.
  — Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• The beloved diner was well known in the community and for paying a living wage.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2024
• Click on the name of your county or metro area to see living wage statistics specific to your area.
  — Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 4 Feb. 2025
• As for a long-term future in journalism — well, a reporter needs to make a living wage with stable hours.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• All workers now earn a living wage that starts at $20 an hour, according to the agency.
  — oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2021
• Making sure all employees have a living wage is a good place to start, but salary is only part of the equation, of course.
  — Pehr Gyllenhammar For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
• For me, when Amazon starts paying its workers a living wage, and at least a $15/hr.
  — Jane Carr, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• The study measures the proportion of workers seeking but unable to find a full-time job that pays a living wage.
  — Justin L. MacK, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
• What is considered a living wage in Texas in 2026?
  — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026
• The employment rate is one thing, in other words, but the number of jobs that pay a living wage is quite another.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 12 June 2020
• Sea Rangers earn living wages beginning at roughly $17 an hour.
  — Richard Morgan, Time, 29 June 2026
• Her moving speech about protecting young artists with a living wage and basic healthcare went viral.
  — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
• The union said that many of its members don’t make a living wage and have taken on second jobs to make ends meet in an expensive city.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
• Every Alaskan has the right to earn a living wage without having to hold down two or three jobs to accomplish that.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Which city department pays the most employees below living wage?
  — Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 25 Feb. 2026
• Unlike minimum wages, which are defined by law, living wage estimates can vary.
  — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2026
• Proposes the state pass a Green New Deal to fund those projects and create jobs that pay a living wage.
  — Mallory Moench, Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022