How to Use minimum wage in a Sentence

minimum wage

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Definition of minimum wagenext
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  • Congress will vote on a bill to raise the minimum wage.
  • Many of them are paid hourly and will receive a 15% increase with the raising of the minimum wage rate.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Harris paired hers with a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage, which is a much better policy.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Prior to the minimum wage hike, Ghai said 25% of his locations already had self-service kiosks systems.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • If along with tips, a worker’s earnings are still below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, then employers have to make up the difference.
    — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Unions, worker safety laws, and even minimum wage laws will all be on the chopping block (not to mention Social Security and Medicare).
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Others see a model ripe for abuse: The remote workers are paid $3 an hour, according to their management company, while the minimum wage in the city is $16.
    — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20.
    — John Stossel, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
  • In New York City, this figure is $10, two-thirds of the minimum wage.
    — Elena Soderblom, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The unions have been seeking a $25-per-hour minimum wage.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Some states have minimum wages that are more than twice that.
    — Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The current minimum wage in San Diego is $16.85 an hour.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
  • At the turn of each year, many states lift the minimum wage to adjust for the cost of living or to meet requirements in the law.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
  • What states are best and worst for minimum wage workers?
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 20 July 2024
  • Their pay must at least equal the prevailing wage or the minimum wage that applies.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Palmer is happy to see the lowest wage earners get an increase due to the city’s minimum wage laws.
    — Natasha Chen, CNN, 19 July 2024
  • In New York City and surrounding counties, the minimum wage has been stuck at $15 while consumer prices have soared in the past year.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The industry’s new minimum wage, the highest in the country, will take effect next April.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In several states, the new minimum wage will more than double that rate.
    — CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • In recent days, tens of thousands have refused to work, calling for the minimum wage to be raised to nearly three times that amount.
    — Jon Emont and Refayet Ullah Mirdha, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
  • That brings us back to the claim that job losses among California’s fast-food restaurants are due to the new minimum wage law.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Arias said that the increase in the minimum wage will allow the district to hire people and ease understaffing issues.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • In a state where the minimum wage for fast food workers will soon be $20 an hour, having less people to pay can be a bonus for businesses.
    — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The new rule would mandate a minimum wage of $17.96 an hour for food delivery workers.
    — Eli Tan, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • Did Panera Bread get an exemption from the $20 minimum wage law?
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Between the lines: Because more women tend to work in low-wage fields, more than twice as many earn the federal minimum wage than men.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • And some of the housing, like the Laureate, serves middle-class tenants, not someone earning, say, the minimum wage.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Supporters of the effort held a press conference at the Secretary of State’s Office to tout a need to raise the state’s minimum wage.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2024
  • The survey found that some workers on the lower end of the pay scale barely make minimum wage, when unpaid overtime is factored in.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Workers on the minimum wage will also get an uplift of almost 10%.
    — Andrew Atkinson, Fortune Europe, 13 Mar. 2024

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