The phrase "adequate wages" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing fair compensation for work or services rendered, typically in the context of employment or labor rights.
Example: "The company is committed to providing adequate wages to ensure that all employees can support their families."
Alternatives: "fair pay" or "sufficient compensation".
The poor depend on daily – adequate – wages to survive.
As long as you provide adequate wages and working conditions, who could object?
As a result, there was little margin left for adequate wages for workers.
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.
A Vietnamese labor official stepped forward to defend Nike the day after California's highest court ruled that the sportswear company could be sued for asserting that overseas workers, including those in Vietnam, were paid adequate wages and that working conditions complied with safety rules.
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.
