Sentence examples for wages from high-quality English sources.

• When it was relatively small, wages would be low.

• “A year of wages, their whole lifetimes of wages?

• The argument that I see most often is if you double wages, prices will double.

• Little is known about the long-run effects of modest minimum wages (see page 66).

• In most places the recession that followed the financial crisis had dire effects on wages.

• Inflation was too low to take a big bite out of real wages by keeping nominal wages flat.

• Ambitious increases in state-level minimum wages in recent years have boosted the wages of the lowest earners.

• We adjusted the 2009 wages for inflation and calculated the percent increase in average annual wages over that decade.

Use wages in a sentence.

• In practice, wages are often sticky, especially in a downward direction: when demand for labour falls, wages do not fall.

• He said that Amazon raised their wages because they wanted to "lead on wages" and because they believed it was the right thing to do.

• For employers with more than 100 full-time employees, qualified wages are wages paid when they are not providing services due to the COVID-19.

• In both cases, qualified wages include any “qualified health plan expenses” allocable to the wages, such as amounts paid to maintain a group health plan.

• Deese said that while about 70% of the typical American's income comes from wages, those making over $1 million a year derive only 30% of their income from wages.

• One study found that while immigration between 1990 and 2006 had little effect on wages of native-born Americans, it lowered the wages of previous immigrants by 6.7%.

• Businesses that suffer from lower profit margin should look at their products and customer services strategy rather than employee wages to argue against living wages.

• The theory is based on the assumption that changes in wages will have a significant effect on consumption because wages make up such a large percentage of the national income.

wages sentence examples

• To illustrate, if you own 30% of an S corporation that pays you $40,000 of wages and allocates you $80,000 of income, your QBI from the S corporation is ONLY the $80,000 of income; the $40,000 of wages do not count.

• That could have meant that low-skilled workers' wages, middle-skilled workers' wages, people with high school degrees — their wages would have grown at the same rate as college graduates' salaries, and professional class salaries, which have exploded."

• The business’s qualified wages depend on its size; if there were more than 100 employees during 2019, the qualified wages are limited ONLY to those wages that were paid by the employer during the quarter for the period of time the business was shut down.

• Groups that included the New York Wages for Housework Committee, Black Women for Wages for Housework, and Wages Due Lesbians fought a “wages for housework” campaign, calling the exploitation of women’s domestic labor an international crime.