as in salary
often wages plural
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
the wage you earn is more than enough to support us comfortably
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Recent Examples of wage
Still, with 90% of his customers based in the US, and their assumption that American consumers have the spending power to adopt humanoid robots early, some are willing to pay more for data from US households, even though the hourly wage can be as much as triple that of a worker in Vietnam or India.
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Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
Housing is the culprit, not wages!
—Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
Soldiers arrived, concrete buildings went up and, for the first time, islanders were paid wages.
—NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
Warning signs are flashing that slowing wage growth could ripple beyond the gas station and prices at the grocery store.
—Brian Cheung, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
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Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
Housing is the culprit, not wages!
—Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
Soldiers arrived, concrete buildings went up and, for the first time, islanders were paid wages.
—NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
Warning signs are flashing that slowing wage growth could ripple beyond the gas station and prices at the grocery store.
—Brian Cheung, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wage
salary
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The Observer compared full-time city employee salaries from its database to publicly available data for similar positions in Mecklenburg County and other cities throughout the country.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Apr. 2026
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The young stars of Netflix’s Stranger Things were successful in securing big salary bumps heading into the show’s fifth and final season.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Wage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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