The phrase "a wage rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the amount of compensation paid to an employee for their work, typically expressed on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis.
Example: "The company has decided to increase a wage rate for all entry-level positions to attract more applicants."
Alternatives: "salary level" or "pay scale".
(e) A wage rate may not be lowered until authorization is obtained.
A wage rate set to ensure a basic but acceptable standard of living.
(a) A prevailing wage rate is a wage rate that is paid to an experienced worker not disabled for the work to be performed.
In this day and age, no labor organization has the legal right to impose a wage rate without negotiations with employers, nor the moral right to extract dues payments without procuring health or pension benefits for employees.
To determine relative prices and a wage rate in the above, a commodity or labor must be chosen as numeraire.
The linear supply function with random preferences yielded a wage rate elasticity of approximately 0.45 to 0.80 and an income elasticity of approximately−0.04 to−0.06.
The parent union developed a plan to re-establish a national wage rate of $8 to $9 an hour and try to increase it in the future.
Australia, with a real GDP per person of nearly $45,000, sets a minimum wage rate of $10.5 an hour well above the $2.9 wage floor in Chile, where income per person is about half Australia's.
A macro wage rate is calculated in a function which forecasts the result of the bargaining process between the unions and the firms: Macroeconomic labor productivity, the deflator for overall consumption and the situation on the labor market determine the macro wage rate, which, in turn, explains besides – some sector-specific variables – the sectoral wage rate.
Swiss voters will decide on 18 May whether to introduce a minimum wage rate of nearly $25 an hour.
For this reason it is a voluntary wage rate – currently £9.15 in London, £7.85 everywhere else.
