Sentence examples for of average earnings from inspiring English sources
The average rent is 75% of average earnings.
So too is the official measure of average earnings.
Unemployment benefit has dropped from one-fifth to one-tenth of average earnings.
During the 1980s recession, unemployment benefit rates were about 17% of average earnings.
On October 14th, the Office for National Statistics ONSS) produced new estimates of average earnings.
The rate of pension is quite a high percentage of average earnings.
Labour said its policy was to raise the minimum wage to 58% of average earnings – higher than the current average.
Jobseeker's allowance is now a mere 15% of average earnings and subject to ever more stringent conditions, backed by sanctions.
So, before the crisis, the growth of average earnings was somewhere between 4% and 4.5% a year.
Annual growth of average earnings (excluding bonuses) fell to 1.4% in November, the lowest rate since June 2010.
They have allowed the single adult jobseeker's allowance to rot on the vine, from 1979 when it was 21% of average earnings, to 2008 when it had fallen to 10.5% of average earnings.
