wages
Example Sentences
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Kopple's latest film centres on New York City union efforts to pressure multinational giants from UPS to Amazon for better wages and benefits for their employees and part-time workers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
He characterized wages for braceros as unconscionably low, the food substandard and the housing prison-like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
After an employer refused to give him full wages for working as a one-handed gardener, Byfield declared: 'I never saw the man that would compete with me with one arm'.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
That might not sound like much, but it was six months' wages to the average Lithuanian.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
She’d heard that many people were leaving Birmingham for the North, for the higher wages they said they could earn in northern cities.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
