living wage

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Recent Examples of living wage In other countries, for example, day care workers are professionals who get paid a living wage, so kids get quality care. Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 July 2025 The Fairphone 6 is 100 percent e-waste neutral, made in factories powered by 100 percent renewable energy, by people paid a living wage. Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 28 June 2025 After all, the firm is contending with a massive headwind of costs that include around £430 million of wage hikes via national insurance contributions and higher living wages, food inflation, and elevated price competition from its peers. John Choong, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living Wage Calculator, the report found that 65.7% of entry-level jobs in KC pay a living wage of $22.75 an hour or $47,320 annually. Ramal Nasim, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for living wage
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Noun
  • One of the two bills, Introduction 1135, would over time require third-party companies like Instacart to pay grocery delivery workers a minimum wage of $21.44.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Some states index their minimum wage annually to the CPI.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • 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 21 Aug. 2025.

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