Sentence examples for share of the average from inspiring English sources

The minimum wage has decreased as a share of the average wage – nearly 60% in the early 90s, less than 45% per cent today.

As a result, says FPDSavills, the share of the average household's disposable income eaten by mortgage payments has fallen to 16%; the long-run average is about 25%.

WHAT type of loans made up for a larger share of the average family's obligations than automobile loans for the first time in history in 2010?

The county is also hurt by the fact that it is legally responsible for refunding tax overpayments to school districts and towns, when the county's share of the average tax bill is only about 19percentt.

The Fed noted that education loans made up a larger share of the average family's obligations than loans to buy automobiles for the first time in the history of the survey.

"But after the post-census redistricting and the 2012 elections, the non-Hispanic white share of the average Republican House district jumped from 73 percent to 75 percent, and the average Democratic House district declined from 52 percent white to 51 percent white.

The estimated upper bounds on the revenue share of the average-wage adjustment costs indicate economic significance of such costs at the plant level, especially those associated with downward adjustment.

Other large German firms have good reasons to worry: non-Germans now control more than half of the freely traded shares of the average company in the Dax index of blue chips.

Shares of the average discount retailer are off 37% from their 52-week highs.

The shares of the average company on the 2009 Most Trustworthy Companies list are up 53% in the 52 weeks leading to March 24, compared with 45% for the Standard & Poor's 500.

A Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ) study found that since 1990 shares of the average spinoff division returned 18.2% above the S&P 500 during its first two years as a stand-alone company.