wage

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Recent Examples of wage Public workers are reporting real wage declines of over 70% since the start of the year, and strikes are spreading among healthcare workers, teachers and pensioners. Antonio Maria Delgado july 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025 More than 3,000 Sacramento County workers went on strike Tuesday morning urging the Board of Supervisors to raise employee wages. Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025 After the regime's move in late 2023 to raise official wages tenfold, the average worker now earns about 30,000 North Korean won—less than $4—per month, analysts say. Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025 The German signed a new deal — his current one — helping to spread his wages over more years. Pol Ballús, New York Times, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for wage
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salary
Noun
  • On the other hand, the club also intends to bring salaries and fees down to a more sustainable level.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • 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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“Wage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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