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Recent Examples of living wage
After all, the firm is contending with a massive headwind of costs that include around £430 million of wage hikes via national insurance contributions and higher living wages, food inflation, and elevated price competition from its peers.
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John Choong, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living Wage Calculator, the report found that 65.7% of entry-level jobs in KC pay a living wage of $22.75 an hour or $47,320 annually.
—Ramal Nasim, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2025
Union workers, most importantly, who couldn’t afford to feed their children and needed a living wage.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
May Day typically draws rallies and protests in support of labor, living wages and working conditions.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
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John Choong, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living Wage Calculator, the report found that 65.7% of entry-level jobs in KC pay a living wage of $22.75 an hour or $47,320 annually.
—Ramal Nasim, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2025
Union workers, most importantly, who couldn’t afford to feed their children and needed a living wage.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
May Day typically draws rallies and protests in support of labor, living wages and working conditions.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for living wage
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Other factors, like a federal minimum wage of $7.50 that has not changed since 2009 and a private healthcare system, also likely contributed to its low ranking.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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In May, the council passed an ordinance to raise the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 per hour — higher than the city’s minimum wage — with Park, Rodriguez and Councilmember John Lee voting against it.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2025
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Veronica hands Flavia the pay envelope.—
Han Ong,
The New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2021
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The men who built the ships of the U.S. Navy men like Charles Fort of Dundalk and William Hooper of White Marsh had the satisfaction of doing a job right, of contributing to the nation's defense and of bringing home to their eastern Baltimore County communities a regular pay envelope.—
Jacques Kelly,
baltimoresun.com,
9 Aug. 2021
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“Living wage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/living%20wage. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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