Synonyms of wages

wages

noun

plural of wage

as in salary

the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services

the wage you earn is more than enough to support us comfortably

Synonyms & Similar Words

• salary
• payment
• pay
• paycheck
• stipend
• earnings
• emolument
• pay envelope
• compensation
• profit
• overtime
• hire
• minimum wage
• living wage
• reimbursement
• packet
• repayment
• nominal wages
• double time
• reparation
• restitution
• remuneration
• redress
• remittance
• recompense
• return
• take-home pay
• takings
• recoupment
• time and a half
• yield
• requital

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wages

The union’s foremost demand has been a contract that guarantees wages commensurate with the skyrocketing cost of living for a single adult New Yorker. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

The next phase will hinge on whether collective bargaining and changes to the commercial relationships between brands and suppliers can move wages where voluntary factory-level programs have struggled to do so. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026

About 150 demonstrators gathered outside the California Department of Human Resources headquarters in downtown Sacramento on July 22, 2026, protesting over telework and wages as labor negotiations continued without a deal. — Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026

However, if interest expense continues to outpace income growth while unemployment rises, real wages cool, and delinquencies broaden, the signal will turn from yellow to red. — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026

Households that absorbed a multiyear jump in food, housing, energy and borrowing costs are not made whole even if wages now keep pace with that higher level of expenses. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026

The childcare sector continues to face serious challenges after the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by low wages and high turnover. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 2 Oct. 2026

Historians have said the act played a key role in expanding insurance for American workers because employers, unable to offer higher wages, offered insurance and other types of fringe benefits. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Cast members want high wages, and these all sort of tug in the opposite direction of each other. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026