Sentence examples for wage itself from inspiring English sources

The "subsistence" wage itself might rise, for example.

The derelict Low Pay Commission has let the minimum wage itself fall £1,000 in real value since 2008.

Other economists said it was not a minimum wage itself, but the level at which it was set, that mattered.

The two principal researchers for Charles River were longtime opponents not just of the living wage, but also of the minimum wage itself.

One political consultant involved in the movement questioned whether the Albuquerque wage itself, at $7.50 an hour, had been set too high by Acorn to win broad support.

In that span, the minimum wage itself rose only by a few bucks.

But if the Bank responds by upping rates, this could increase unemployment by more than the wage floor itself.

And, say the minutes, "There was agreement that the minimum wage by itself was likely to put upward pressure on inflation".How much pressure is the key question.

Mickey Levy, chief economist at NationsBank Securities, points out that even wage growth itself is not inflationary if it is matched by increases in productivity growth.

The minimum wage law itself remains contentious, with fiscal conservatives predicting an unemployment disaster.

The minimum wage jump itself would be phased in over a period of five years, increasing to $10.50 in January 2017, $11.00 in 2018, and a dollar more each year after that.