wages

How To Use wages In A Sentence

• I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
• Because the joint ventures pay very low wages, and do not have to pay GST and local taxes, they are able to pay for quota at a level that is unsustainable or uneconomic for our local fishermen.
• The faces he recognized were those of the laziest and most incapable workmen in the town -- men whose weekly wages were habitually docked for drunkenness, late hours, and botchy work. The Bread-winners A Social Study
• NHS penpusher boom: Wages bill is up £78m as 'costly' drugs are vetoed Home | Mail Online
• It is best to set out all the circumstances that may lead to a deduction from wages and put these in the documentation you provide to employees. Times, Sunday Times
• If we do not increase their wages and salaries, then they will pack their bags and go.
• And workers 'wages barely budged, meaning consumers will probably stay somewhat cautious in the months ahead. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
• That reduces the risk of big swings in relative prices and wages. Times, Sunday Times
• Are wages keeping up with inflation?
• Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus