Sentence examples for wages amount from inspiring English sources

Wages amount to just 20% or so of a car's cost; the efficiency of the supply chain counts for a lot more.

"At one factory, young women are paid just 29 cents for each $140 Nike N.B.A. shirt they sew, which means that their wages amount to only two-tenths of 1percentt of the garment's retail price," Charles Kernaghan, the executive director of the committee, said in Washington.

The workers' wages amount to less than 3/10ths of one percent of the $14 retail price of the Victoria's Secret bikini.

Premier League clubs' wages amount to around 70percentt of the clubs' total expenditure whereas in the Bundesliga, the same amount is at around 50percentt.

If you have worked since the Sunday of the week of your application, the amount of gross wages (amount earned before any deductions) earned in that week including lodging, meals, or earned compensation of any form.

The Croatia international returned to Spurs Lodge on Monday to prepare for the new season but will be fined two weeks' wages, amounting to £80,000.

For decades, tens of thousands of its employees were never eligible for coverage, and what was offered was too costly for a work force whose average wages amounted to roughly $20,000 a year.

Restraining German wages amounted to an internal devaluation; it had the same export-boosting effect as would have been achieved by depressing the national currency if Germany still had one.Now a low unemployment rate (6.5% in April), rising domestic demand and inter-union competition are making workers bolder.

The 6percentt of national income that's going to profits instead of wages amounts to nearly $900 billion a year.

This means that their wages amounted to just a little more than one-tenth of one percent of the jersey's retail price.[emphasis added].

Ms. Mader requests money for pain and suffering as well as medical bills and a "lost wage amount due to his inability to audition or take modeling or commercial jobs while his head heals".