How to Use minimum wage in a Sentence

minimum wage

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  • Congress will vote on a bill to raise the minimum wage.
  • The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20.
    — John Stossel, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
  • The nannies work full-time or part-time and earn the minimum wage of about $7 an hour.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 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 state’s minimum wage has risen to $10.50 an hour, but rents have increased far more steeply.
    — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The current minimum wage in San Diego is $16.85 an hour.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
  • 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
  • Both states have high by minimum wage laws (around $15 an hour).
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Illinois is one of 21 states where the minimum wage is going up this year.
    — Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
  • What states are best and worst for minimum wage workers?
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 20 July 2024
  • Many tipped workers earn less than the minimum wage, and thus earn the lion’s share of their income from tips.
    — Kenneth Schrupp | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The job barely paid minimum wage, but the recruiter did not care that he had been locked up for almost a decade.
    — Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Their pay must at least equal the prevailing wage or the minimum wage that applies.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • There are so many things you must get used to in L.A. — not to mention one cocktail costs more than minimum wage.
    — Megan Elizabeth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Harris will work to raise the minimum wage and end taxes on tips, her campaign said.
    — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Many teachers are on the minimum wage of $225 a month and are forced to take on extra work such as cleaning just to survive.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • What these jobs also had in common is that the starting pay was at, or just above, minimum wage.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Trading in an empty jug for a full one can cost nearly a third of the daily minimum wage.
    — Allison Keeley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Two states, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage below $7.25 per hour.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 24 July 2022
  • In Alaska, the state minimum wage before tips is $10.34.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Amazon was one of the first companies to champion the $15 minimum wage which is now up to $18 per hour.
    — Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • However, for the fast food industry in the Golden State, the minimum wage is $20 per hour, the highest in the United States.
    — Rohit Arora, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • At TaskRabbit, the average hourly rate is $49 an hour, which is way above minimum wage.
    — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 25 May 2022

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