Sentence examples for half the average wage from inspiring English sources
Plus, in the 1960s the minimum wage was essentially half the average wage.
Half the average wage was assigned to unpaid home workers, taking their age group into consideration [ 7].
Roughly half the average wage in the wider workforce.
In 17 boroughs the average rent is now more than half the average wage, and the typical first time buyer is 32.
On average, farm workers earned $6.18 an hour, less than half the average wage for private, nonfarm workers, in 1998, the year of the Labor Department's most recent survey of agricultural workers.
The Center for American Progress's massive economic growth plan calls for setting the minimum at one half the average wage for production and non-supervisory workers; at the current average, that means a minimum of $10.04 an hour.
That's half of the average wages in Cambodia.
We need to raise the minimum wage until it reaches half the level of the average wage, as it did fifty years ago.
He earns 300,000 forint (£830) per month in a country where the average wage is less than half this amount.
They might want to remind Aslef members that the average wage in this country is about half a Tube driver's, but that most people earn much less.
The average wage has fallen to €600 (£450: $690) a month; half of all young people are unemployed and the economy is barely emerging from six years of recession.
