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nominal wages

plural noun

as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples on the Web That’s despite nominal wages (i.e. wages which have not been adjusted for inflation) having increased 13.4% during that span. —

Alena Botros, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023 While annual average nominal wages for full-time nurses in the UK have risen in the past decade, real wages — which adjust for inflation — have dropped. —

Rob Picheta, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022 There is also a growing understanding that nominal wages can continue to rise while inflation declines. —

Matthew Nestler, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022 The pre-industrial economy yielded no productivity increases sufficient to boost real wages, and even nominal wages scarcely rose because there wasn’t much inflation in the pre-industrial economy. —

Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for nominal wages