Wage in a sentence as a noun

Why hold down a programming job when you can write HN comments fulltime for 4x the wage?

Haven't had a non-minimum-wage job for the past year?

There's a tipping point at which the establishment can no longer wage the battle.

You can see this when you look at stagnating wages for everyone outside the executive class.

There is another initiative asking for a minimum wage of 4000CHF per month.

Is it ok for companies to utilize mass scale labor at what becomes in reality a sub minimum wage rate?

I would not take some offhanded remark from an outsourced, minimum wage, offshore worker as confirmation of anything.

They should raise the minimum wage for factory workers, create more stringent regulation and make great effort to ensure those regulations are followed.

Wage in a sentence as a verb

Showing up to work is a small price to pay for being paid a great wage and having the opportunity to work for what will hopefully become a first class company again.

Though now I'm curious to know whether these wage-theft pacts extend beyond SV, perhaps to Austin... Many of the same players have a significant presence here.

Amazon's prices are usually good enough that, especially coupled with the free 2nd day shipping, my effective "wage" for comparison is too low to make it worth it.

I suspect the one area where this will impact the most is customer service; Google is traditionally horrible because they're loathe to waste money on minimum wage call-centre employees to support loss-leader products.

You won't be able to afford a good one, so you'll constantly be spending money on maintaining it, not to mention that it will strand you one day and your minimum wage job will be more likely to fire you for not showing up than the average cubicle job.

But then again, I'm also just one of these Euro-socialists who thinks that everybody should have health insurance and should earn a living wage if working full time.\nAmazon more or less takes the same stance as you seem to take: They claim that they are just helping the weakest people.

As much as everyone wants to think doctors are only interested in lining their pockets, the reality is that most of us simply don't want your grandparent going blind in one eye because a minimum-wage tech at a compounding pharmacy failed to follow appropriate sterile procedure.

They are also actively trying to keep their employees from unionizing.\nIf you consider the current wages "decent" is up to your point of view, but the union and I'd guess most of the affected workers disagree.> The fact that most of the workers are not on strike proves that they're satisfied with their jobsThis proves nothing, in particular not job satisfaction, and is actually also not how things work in Germany and therefore just wrong.\nFirst a union will usually selectively shut down just a few facilities instead of all at once.

Wage definitions

noun

something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

See also: earnings remuneration salary

verb

carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"

See also: engage