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  2. Real wages - Wikipedia

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    Real wages. Real wages are wages adjusted for inflation, or, equivalently, wages in terms of the amount of goods and services that can be bought. This term is used in contrast to nominal wages or unadjusted wages. Because it has been adjusted to account for changes in the prices of goods and services, real wages provide a clearer representation ...

  3. Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal minimum wage in the United States has been $7.25 per hour since July 2009, the last time Congress raised it. [ 45 ] Some types of labor are exempt: Employers may pay tipped labor a minimum of $2.13 per hour, as long as the hour wage plus tip income equals at least the minimum wage.

  4. Minimum wage - Wikipedia

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    Winston Churchill MP, Trade Boards Bill, Hansard House of Commons (28 April 1909) vol 4, col 388 Modern minimum wage laws trace their origin to the Ordinance of Labourers (1349), which was a decree by King Edward III that set a maximum wage for laborers in medieval England. Edward, who was a wealthy landowner, was dependent, like his lords, on serfs to work the land. In the autumn of 1348, the ...

  5. Average Indexed Monthly Earnings - Wikipedia

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    Because it takes more than one year to fully collect such data, and because some people have January birthdays, the age 62 calculation done in 2006 must be based on the most recent data which is the 2004 national average wage. By law, all covered workers who attain age 62 in 2006 must be treated the same with respect to wage indexation so the ...

  6. Wage - Wikipedia

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    e. A wage is payment made by an employer to an employee for work done in a specific period of time. Some examples of wage payments include compensatory payments such as minimum wage, prevailing wage, and yearly bonuses, and remunerative payments such as prizes and tip payouts. Wages are part of the expenses that are involved in running a business.

  7. Compensation and benefits - Wikipedia

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    Compensation can be any form of monetary such as salary, hourly wages, overtime pay, sign-on bonus, merit bonus, retention bonus, commissions, incentive pay or performance-based compensation, restricted stock units (RSUs) and etc [2] Benefits are any type of reward offered by an organization that is classified as non-monetary (not wages or ...

  8. Direct labor cost - Wikipedia

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    In the direct labor cost we need to have the job time and wage we will pay it to the worker to calculate the direct labor cost as in this formulation: [1] - = Depending on the context, there are various methods to calculate personnel costs, such as on an hourly or daily basis.

  9. Employee compensation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wages adjusted for inflation in the US from 1964 to 2004 Unemployment compared to wages. Wage data (e.g. median wages) for different occupations in the US can be found from the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, [5] broken down into subgroups (e.g. marketing managers, financial managers, etc.) [6] by state, [7] metropolitan areas, [8] and gender.