How to Use minimum wage in a Sentence

minimum wage

noun

• Congress will vote on a bill to raise the minimum wage.
• The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20.
  — John Stossel, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
• The nannies work full-time or part-time and earn the minimum wage of about $7 an hour.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• In New York City, this figure is $10, two-thirds of the minimum wage.
  — Elena Soderblom, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• The unions have been seeking a $25-per-hour minimum wage.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Some states have minimum wages that are more than twice that.
  — Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
• The state’s minimum wage has risen to $10.50 an hour, but rents have increased far more steeply.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2022
• The current minimum wage in San Diego is $16.85 an hour.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
• Many of them are paid hourly and will receive a 15% increase with the raising of the minimum wage rate.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
• Both states have high by minimum wage laws (around $15 an hour).
  — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• At the turn of each year, many states lift the minimum wage to adjust for the cost of living or to meet requirements in the law.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
• What states are best and worst for minimum wage workers?
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 20 July 2024
• Many tipped workers earn less than the minimum wage, and thus earn the lion’s share of their income from tips.
  — Kenneth Schrupp | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Sep. 2024
• The job barely paid minimum wage, but the recruiter did not care that he had been locked up for almost a decade.
  — Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Their pay must at least equal the prevailing wage or the minimum wage that applies.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
• Harris will work to raise the minimum wage and end taxes on tips, her campaign said.
  — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
• Palmer is happy to see the lowest wage earners get an increase due to the city’s minimum wage laws.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN, 19 July 2024
• In New York City and surrounding counties, the minimum wage has been stuck at $15 while consumer prices have soared in the past year.
  — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• What these jobs also had in common is that the starting pay was at, or just above, minimum wage.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• Trading in an empty jug for a full one can cost nearly a third of the daily minimum wage.
  — Allison Keeley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
• The industry’s new minimum wage, the highest in the country, will take effect next April.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• In several states, the new minimum wage will more than double that rate.
  — CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
• In Alaska, the state minimum wage before tips is $10.34.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The cost of living in San Francisco means the restaurant has to pay its workers well above minimum wage.
  — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
• The minimum wage in each country differs across states and provinces.
  — Charmaine Jacob, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
• In recent days, tens of thousands have refused to work, calling for the minimum wage to be raised to nearly three times that amount.
  — Jon Emont and Refayet Ullah Mirdha, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
• That brings us back to the claim that job losses among California’s fast-food restaurants are due to the new minimum wage law.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
• There's also a minimum wage that isn't tied to prevailing wage in the country of origin.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
• Bank of America, Costco and Home Depot, for example, all raised their minimum wages to $15 or more since the pandemic.
  — Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• Many states have established a higher minimum wage and seven, including Nevada, have done away with the subminimum wage.
  — Bob Woods, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024