The phrase "proper wage" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to a wage that is considered fair for the type of work being done. For example, "The employer should pay their employees a proper wage for the hours they have worked."
"It is missing anything that will allow them to share in the recovery with a proper wage increase," she said.
Failing to act on that particular call for reform won't just cost teachers a proper wage, or children a decent education – it will cost lives.
Labour for messing up the economy so fewer people have decent jobs, and a proper wage; the Tory-Lib Dem Coalition for messing up benefits payments, delaying them for little purpose.
Although "not a single complaint" had been received, one Christian Desfontaine felt obliged to look after the welfare of the chalet girls anyway, and that meant paying them a proper wage.
Ben Lyons, co-director of Intern Aware, a campaigning group for fair internships, said that, while work experience was an increasingly important addition to a graduate's CV, if work was being carried out then a proper wage should be paid.
But you have got to make sure you have a fair playing field so when people come here you enforce the law and people are paid the proper wage and all that.
We pay them proper wages".
In order to pay restaveks proper wages, you'd have to pay your own employees better.
Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice produced a report that advocated paying proper wages for proper work.
For him, competing with business owners who do not pay the proper wages makes for an uneven playing field.
Forcing Goodwin's bank to lend more reasonably; building more affordable housing and making firms pay proper wages.
