Sentence examples for great wage from inspiring English sources

"This great wage stagnation has stifled our economic recovery and could threaten our future prospects too.

They need to realise that £15,000 a year isn't a great wage, so minimum wage is an abomination.

Leftists might protest that the poor are getting poorer, but the Conservative bet is that the working majority will regard it as right and proper for benefits to share in the great wage squeeze.

"Although it's a long time to wait, that's a great wage increase," said Petra Iona, a Dominican immigrant who earns $6.03 an hour after working for nine years cleaning office buildings in Jersey City.

Economists argue about the reasons for the great wage slowdown — technology, globalization, health care costs, the decline of unions, the rise of the new wealthy — but it clearly seems to have made people feel more vulnerable to small economic swings.

–Lawyer ($124,750)–Much like CEOs, a great lawyer commands a great wage.

If I lose some money in that but people are getting paid great wages, great".

Wage data by state is hard to compile, but I haven't heard anyone claiming that Texas is drawing workers in by offering great wages; on the contrary, the state has a reputation for cheap labor.

Asserting that there was some complacency in the U.A.W.'s leadership after Walter died in 1970, Sasha Reuther said that union officials focused more on continuing the great wages of the past than on keeping the automakers competitive.

Your lead story (The great wages crash, 30 January), about a finding by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that young workers in the UK's private sector are among the biggest victims of falling living standards, should not surprise anyone familiar with an old economic finding that real wages don't rise in a sector facing an unlimited supply of labour.

GM paid such great wages and benefits that an entire middle class of workers was created.