How to Use subminimum in a Sentence

subminimum

adjective

• The very idea of a subminimum wage is a racist holdover from the era of slavery.
  — Adrian Boafo, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2024
• If the subminimum wage is low, your tip will help the employee make a livable wage.
  — Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
• Instead, they’re only required to pay subminimum wage, which varies from state to state.
  — Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• Workers are no longer willing to work for subminimum wages, and hundreds of employers have raised wages to recruit staff.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2021
• For his part, Johnson argued the city’s subminimum wage workforce was largely made up of women of color.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
• Once the new rule is finalized, a three-year period will begin for the phasing out of all certificates with subminimum wages.
  — Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024
• Seven states have already fully done, with more in the process of increasing or entirely phasing out their subminimum wages.
  — Kate Bahn, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• Ending the subminimum wage is what would really make that policy make sense — and make a difference in the lives of working people.
  — Robert Jackson, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2025
• The plan also would eliminate a youth subminimum wage that allows businesses to pay teens less during the first 90 days of work.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021
• The subminimum wage is set to rise again in July and fully match the minimum wage in 2028.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
• However, none of these efforts are influenced by the existence of subminimum wage.
  — Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• These bills include proposals to raise kids’ wages above the subminimum wage, restrict working hours, and ban work in some hazardous environments.
  — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 1 July 2024
• Toia predicted that many restaurants will add service charges if the subminimum wage continues to be eliminated.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
• Toia reiterated that workers who earn the subminimum wage are guaranteed at least the city’s minimum wage and often make more when tips are factored in.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
• This includes youth workers and workers with disabilities who currently make subminimum wage.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Many states have established a higher minimum wage and seven, including Nevada, have done away with the subminimum wage.
  — Bob Woods, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
• Toia decried Johnson’s veto and argued the fight against ending the subminimum wage was one to defend neighborhood restaurants.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
• What's more, federal law still allows US employers to pay subminimum wages to nearly a million workers.
  — Gina Cummings For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• Toia reiterated several times that workers who make the subminimum wage are guaranteed to make at least the city’s minimum wage and often make more when tips are factored in.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
• The solution is not to continue allowing a subminimum wage but to build a business model that does not make the exploitation of employees central to its success.
  — Elena Soderblom, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• The association has spent decades fighting increases to the minimum wage at the federal and state levels, as well as the subminimum wage paid to tipped workers like waiters.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• The rising gap between executive pay and employees’ wages is a good place to start, particularly in one of the few industries where subminimum wages are allowed.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2022
• Aldermen are set to vote today on halting planned tipped worker wage bumps set to eliminate Chicago’s subminimum wage in 2028.
  — Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
• Although, her plan would also see the federal government eliminating subminimum wages.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2024
• The idea was that by offering subminimum wages, employers would be incentivized to hire Disabled workers who might otherwise be excluded from the workforce.
  — Keely Cat-Wells, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
• Recently, the city of Chicago raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour and its subminimum wage to $9 an hour, the latter a win for restauranteurs like Williams.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 3 July 2021
• According to law, establishments that pay a subminimum wage must make up the difference between an employee’s earnings — wage plus tips — and the state’s regular minimum wage.
  — Tara Nurin, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Aldermen are set to vote Wednesday on halting planned tipped worker wage bumps set to eliminate Chicago’s subminimum wage in 2028.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
• Family pushback Some families of people with disabilities are against abolishing the subminimum wage.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
• Still, even if the proposal is not enacted, subminimum pay for those with disabilities could become a thing of the past, as more than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have already banned the program.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024