The phrase "adequate wage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing compensation that is sufficient to meet basic needs or standards for a job or position.
Example: "The company is committed to providing an adequate wage to all its employees to ensure their financial stability."
Alternatives: "sufficient salary" or "fair compensation".
But I don't find it easy being short of money and would love to know who decides that £45 is an adequate wage for the work involved in caring for another.
In TV ads, on billboards and at sidewalk rallies, the unions' message is the same: because the city does not pay its cops and firefighters an adequate wage, New York cannot attract or retain skilled uniformed workers.
Due to the lack of adequate wage data and in light of the traditionally high unemployment rates characteristic of some Spanish regions, we instead examine immigrant responsiveness to labor market prospects relative to natives.
With all of the existing barriers that prevent individuals from finding work, earning an adequate wage, affording a safe home and caring for themselves, remaining homeless is rarely a choice at all.
"There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American whether he [or she] is a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid, or day laborer," said King, who spoke in Pasadena in 1958, 1960, and 1965.
"There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American whether he [or she] is a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid, or day laborer," said King. "The two most dynamic movements that reshaped the nation during the past three decades are the labor and civil rights movements.
The poor depend on daily – adequate – wages to survive.
As a result, there was little margin left for adequate wages for workers.
As long as you provide adequate wages and working conditions, who could object?
Congress in 1918 had authorized the Wage Board to ascertain and fix adequate wages for women employees in the nation's capital.
The owner of a Brooklyn tortilla factory where a worker died last year after falling into a mixing machine pleaded guilty on Tuesday to failing to pay adequate wages, the state attorney general's office said.
