How to Use nominal wages in a Sentence

nominal wages

plural noun

• Annual growth in private-sector nominal wages this year has been around the 2.5% mark.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• They are paid a nominal wage, generally up to $1 per hour.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 16 Oct. 2017
• Sure, on average and given enough time, nominal wages might rise to match the nominal price level.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
• In the new government jobs report, year-over-year nominal wage growth is 2.7 percent nationwide as of June, a solid but not stellar pace.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2018
• Although nominal wages of some workers have risen, raises are largely canceled by higher prices.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2021
• All of this is a big part of why nominal wages are growing at about 6% annually in the U.S., well above their prepandemic pace, while nominal wage growth in the euro area is running at about a 3% annual rate.
  — Jason Furman, WSJ, 6 June 2022
• The Facts One thing that’s confusing in this conversation is that there are different metrics available: hourly wages, weekly wages, nominal wage growth, real wage growth and so forth.
  — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• Recent data show, however, that the problem rich countries face is not that nominal wage growth has failed to respond to economic conditions.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2018
• The second is zero future growth in nationwide average nominal wages.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Higher nominal wages move more taxpayers more quickly into higher tax brackets even if their real standard of living declines.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• As nominal wages and prices rise, that adjustment will shield more money from taxation and block inflation—currently above 5% on an unadjusted annual rate—from causing a sharp tax increase.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2021
• Inflation is causing real wages to decline despite rising nominal wages.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 May 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024