"minimal wage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the lowest amount of money that an employee can be paid by law. Example: "The government has recently announced an increase in the minimal wage, which will benefit thousands of low-income workers."
Suburbanites no longer want to do menial work or work for minimal wage.
High inflation and minimal wage growth led to falling real incomes and a slower recovery.
"Management's plan to cut benefits and grant minimal wage increases threatens those standards and the company's ability to attract and retain top reporting talent".
I started the company in a shed at the bottom of my garden to keep costs down and paid myself a minimal wage.
Combined with low interest rates, rising migration, near full occupancy of state housing in South Auckland, and minimal wage rises, the pressure on many low to middle income earners has become too much to bear.
Combined with low interest rates, rising migration, near full occupancy of state housing in South Auckland, and minimal wage rises, the pressure on many low to middle income earners has become too much to bear, writes Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin.
Once you factor the hours I actually put in against the hours for which I am compensated, I earn less than minimum wage with minimal benefits and no job security.
Since most of the manufactured goods that "Seattleites" buy are not manufactured in Seattle, the cost-of-living impact of raising the minimum wage is minimal upon metropolitan residents, especially when Seattle's superior household income level is taken into consideration.
States' Rights Without comment, the court turned down an opportunity to revisit a 1985 decision that made states liable for paying their employees according to the federal minimal wage-and-hour standards.
With his minimal wages he buys her jewelry.
Three quarters of all post-secondary teachers are now contingent: teaching for minimal wages and without security or benefits.
