Sentence examples for compared with wage from inspiring English sources

Yet fares were very high compared with wage levels: typically £1,200 (about the same as the most basic RTW costs in the high season today), which equalled about three months' work at the average salary.

For instance, when compared with wage labourers, waste pickers were more likely to complain of shoulder (OR 3.5; p<0.01), ankle (OR 2.9; p<0.05), hand (OR 2.1; p<0.05) and upper and lower back (each OR 1.9; p<0.05) MSDs.

It is now building in lower-cost countries like Hungary and Slovakia, where productivity is higher compared with wages and taxes.

The chief Senate sponsor of the legislation, Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, said the government would be able to attract well-qualified people because it would pay screeners $30,000 to $35,000 a year, compared with wages of $15,000 now paid by some private companies.

We have once again used the Economist's Big Mac Index to calculate the purchasing power of Britain's national living wage compared with minimum wages across the rest of Europe.

By contrast, $6,700 spent to provide one low-wage worker with the skills employers need is a small amount compared with the wage gains she could make in a few years.

Furthermore, some injuries, like those to the shoulder, receive particularly low benefits compared with the wage loss workers experience.

Teenage rebels and philosophers alike used to protest against the dull daily grind - and they had it easy compared with modern wage slaves.

Younger Australians, in my experience, are fairly value-conscious thanks to our constant low-level awareness of just how high house prices are compared with our wage growth.

Figure  5 illustrates that physician remuneration compared with average wages and nurses is no more favorable in Norway than in other systems [ 41].

Chief executives in the FTSE 100 companies took home £4.96m in 2014 compared with average wages of £27,645.