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an amount of money that is the least amount of money per hour that workers must be paid according to the law
Congress will vote on a bill to raise the minimum wage.
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Recent Examples of minimum wage
In addition, minimum wage rates will be increased for all workers by two percent between the second and third years of the contract and everyone in the bargaining unit who has worked a minimum of two seasons in the past year will receive a 1.5 percent raise in that same time period.
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Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025
The latest Texas Senate budget bill seeks to raise wages for community attendants to $12 an hour, a number that is still subject to change and a far cry from the $20-an-hour minimum wage that the Personal Attendant Coalition of Texas, or PACT, and its partners are advocating.
—Madeline De Figueiredo, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Instead, critics including the Economic Policy Institute, advocate for increasing the federal minimum wage as a better way to help all low-wage workers.
—Natalie Wu
ryan Ermey, CNBC, 1 July 2025
This can offset minimum wage increases mandated by the city.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
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Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025
The latest Texas Senate budget bill seeks to raise wages for community attendants to $12 an hour, a number that is still subject to change and a far cry from the $20-an-hour minimum wage that the Personal Attendant Coalition of Texas, or PACT, and its partners are advocating.
—Madeline De Figueiredo, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Instead, critics including the Economic Policy Institute, advocate for increasing the federal minimum wage as a better way to help all low-wage workers.
—Natalie Wu
ryan Ermey, CNBC, 1 July 2025
This can offset minimum wage increases mandated by the city.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minimum wage
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Over 90% of the department's budget makes up personnel costs, including wages, benefits and pension contributions.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
The Courier-Journal,
22 July 2025
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However, the paper says those benefits fade over time and many certificate holders end up earning poverty-level wages, according to a 2021 study.—
Staff,
USA Today,
21 July 2025
Noun
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Lazard will have a base salary of $2.25 million this upcoming season.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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Raise salaries, diminish contractual obligations to teach, include the expenses of laboratory instruction and add the depreciation of expensive buildings — all factors in the sciences — and tuition becomes wholly inadequate to cover even the cost of instruction.—
Clifford Ando,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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This fee goes directly to staff payroll and provides a living wage to our team.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
11 July 2025
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An uncomfortable truth is that many remaining U.S. garment workers earn a smaller share of a living wage than their counterparts in some of the countries where a lot of American clothing is made, such as Cambodia or Vietnam.—
Elizabeth Cline,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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“Minimum wage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minimum%20wage. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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