Sentence examples for despite wages from inspiring English sources

Since the end of 2011, the average price has increased by £36,000, despite wages rising at less than the level of inflation.

When workers ask "What can a union do for me?", the answer is not terribly convincing, despite wages of unionised workers being higher than their non-unionised counterparts.

The city embraced the industry and fought to keep it intact here in recent years despite wages, sugar prices and environmental regulations that combine to put American candy factories at a sharp cost disadvantage.

Despite wages peaking between the age of 40 and 49, according to Friends Life, having children later in life – births among women aged 45-plus have more than doubled in the past decade, and births among women aged 40-44 have risen by just over a third – means this can be a cash-strapped time for families.

Ms. Lopez said despite wages of $9.85 an hour, she has been earning too little to forego a $200 monthly welfare supplement, because while her earnings raised her share of the subsidized rent, she kept missing days of pay, mainly to care for her 13-year-old son, Nicholas, who has had repeated operations for a brain abscess.

Despite wages that can exceed $30 an hour on average, the National Foundation for American Policy found 140,000 high-skilled jobs were still open at S&P 500 companies in January and February of this year despite an increase of 544,000 unemployed workers since February of last year.

Workers, despite wage level or gender, should have real decision-making power in the companies and corporations they work in.

Despite wage increases included in the contact, the teachers said they would earn less because of higher health insurance contributions.

John McCain had a major speaking role in the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia despite waging a vicious primary battle against George W Bush.

Despite waging his own war for the best part of 30 years – 15 of them spent largely on the run in Afghanistan – Bin Laden had always managed to keep his loved ones nearby.

But with 41% of shares held abroad and only 17% by pension funds, unseen forces outvote concerned shareholders at AG Ms."Transparency" is a miasma: we already know boardroom pay rose by 49% despite wage freezes, but public embarrassment seems a price directors find well worth paying.