Sentence examples similar to customary wage from inspiring English sources

Labour seized on the data showing that two years of solid growth have failed to translate into the customary recovery in wage and productivity growth.

In China, where unions have little clout, Wal-Mart has refused to kick in the customary 2% of wages to the state-run labor councils, paying it instead into a fund for employees.

The group "hesitated only slightly" when asked to donate the customary week's wages, a large sum for a Beatle, to learn.

The labour market is rigid a 15% annual increase in wages is customary.

That was the more customary way.

However, because the waitstaff are often paid fairly low wages, it is the customary practice.

Intensifying international competition seems to have severed the customary link between improving productivity and rising wages.

He said that the workers had been paid a living wage – in fact slightly more than customary – to work on the project.

An econometric model for hourly wage is developed, and explanatory variables customary to studies of this nature are included in the log-lin model.

But in a bizarre twist on the "don't ask, don't tell" rules that shield employers, it's customary for companies to ask for salary history and use that information to set wages for new hires.

Tips are not customary nor are they expected, perhaps because the minimum wage is $17 an hour.