Sentence examples for wage rose from inspiring English sources

Their average wage rose 7 cents, to $16.41 an hour.

And thanks to Labour the minimum apprentice wage rose last month by more than 20percentt.

In Jakarta, for example, the minimum wage rose by 50% in real terms between 1997 and 2002, despite the crisis.

In her second year, her monthly wage rose to about $1,510 — or $7.91 an hour, according to her filing.

This month the city's minimum wage rose to $9.50 an hour, the highest rate in the United States.

Mr. Tovar, who has worked at Alcoa for nine years, said his daily wage rose from $6.70 to $8.50.

On Jan . 1 the minimum wage roses for workers in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia.

However, sluggish growth has done little to restrain wage inflation: German workers' pay rose by 2.7% in the year to August, up from 1.9% a year earlier and well ahead of the 1% inflation rate.

Among other things, insiders benefit from wage-escalation clauses, so that in 2009 real pay rose by 3.2% even though the economy shrank by 3.7%.

Private sector pay rose by 1.7% (annually) in the three months to January, but public sector wages only increased by 0.5%, according to the ONS.

From 1913 to May 1919, the cost of living rose by 76%, while police wages rose just 18%.