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Recent Examples of living wage
Listen to this article Housing Authority of Cook County union workers ratified two new union contracts this week, earning average salary floor raises of 4% and 7% and annual cost of living wage increases of 3% and 4%.
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Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
That calculation doesn’t take account of the extent to which a business is paying its employees below a living wage, or contaminating the environment.
—Iese Business School, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
What is considered a living wage in Missouri in 2025?
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2025
What’s the living wage in my California county?
—Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 19 Feb. 2025
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Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
That calculation doesn’t take account of the extent to which a business is paying its employees below a living wage, or contaminating the environment.
—Iese Business School, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
What is considered a living wage in Missouri in 2025?
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2025
What’s the living wage in my California county?
—Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 19 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for living wage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for living wage
Noun
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The country’s current $208 monthly minimum wage — a $4 increase from last year — doesn’t sound like much to Americans.—
Rob Davis,
ProPublica,
25 Apr. 2025
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Government regulates products and services, compensation (minimum wage, etc.), revenue (taxes), locations and access, and utilities (natural gas).—
William Dunkelberg,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope.—
Han Ong,
The New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2021
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The men who built the ships of the U.S. Navy men like Charles Fort of Dundalk and William Hooper of White Marsh had the satisfaction of doing a job right, of contributing to the nation's defense and of bringing home to their eastern Baltimore County communities a regular pay envelope.—
Jacques Kelly,
baltimoresun.com,
9 Aug. 2021
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“Living wage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/living%20wage. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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