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.
• But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
• 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?