How to Use living wage in a Sentence

living wage

noun

• He was barely earning a living wage.
• In the survey, a living wage was defined as $19.50 an hour.
  — Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2020
• In Montana, a living wage for the same household stands at about $16.30.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2023
• New groves dot the hills above town, though their owners don’t yet make a living wage from them.
  — Zoey Poll, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• The Wealth of Nations and in Teddy Roosevelt’s call for a living wage in 1912.
  — Time, 22 Dec. 2020
• For all the growth, players aren’t yet earning a living wage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
• Proposes the state pass a Green New Deal to fund those projects and create jobs that pay a living wage.
  — Mallory Moench, Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022
• The rate this year shoots up to more than $30 for single parents to make a living wage in Dallas-Fort Worth.
  — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2022
• But for workers to pay their own way, businesses would have to pay them a living wage.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• Not many, if anyone, can make a true living wage by these methods.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
• For me, when Amazon starts paying its workers a living wage, and at least a $15/hr.
  — Jane Carr, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• Mama is out here fighting for a living wage babyyyyy💪 .
  — Time, 4 Aug. 2023
• The beloved diner was well known in the community and for paying a living wage.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2024
• That depended on having a good job that paid a living wage.
  — Don Leonard, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021
• All workers now earn a living wage that starts at $20 an hour, according to the agency.
  — oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2021
• Bush’s belief in the need for a living wage was strengthened by her battles with poverty.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 11 Oct. 2022
• Even the $15 living wage championed by Democrats would not make a dent in the vast majority of states.
  — Tracy Jan, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2018
• Those from the left, however, are concerned that workers will not be paid a living wage.
  — Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Then the second thing that was important to us was to find an industry that pays a living wage.
  — Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• So Dallas leaders are launching a campaign that aims to double the rate of young adults equipped to earn a living wage by 2040.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
• Making sure all employees have a living wage is a good place to start, but salary is only part of the equation, of course.
  — Pehr Gyllenhammar For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
• Every Alaskan has the right to earn a living wage without having to hold down two or three jobs to accomplish that.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• The study measures the proportion of workers seeking but unable to find a full-time job that pays a living wage.
  — Justin L. MacK, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
• In your case, this means letting your clients know about your commitment to paying a living wage.
  — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• Its garment workers are paid a living wage and much of its fabric is deadstock.
  — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2024
• As for a long-term future in journalism — well, a reporter needs to make a living wage with stable hours.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• The employment rate is one thing, in other words, but the number of jobs that pay a living wage is quite another.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 12 June 2020
• That’s still not a living wage for a full-time worker in California and certainly not in the Bay Area.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
• About 70% of staff assistants earned less than a living wage, and many staffers had to take on side jobs to cover expenses.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 May 2022
• Frances Ha captures the spirit of those times in life when even the simplest things—an OK place to live, a job that pays a living wage—seem desperately out of reach.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024