How to Use living wage in a Sentence

living wage

noun

• He was barely earning a living wage.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In your case, this means letting your clients know about your commitment to paying a living wage.
  — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Organizers say that pay at the store falls below the living wage for Atlanta.
  — Ian Kullgren / Bloomberg, Time, 21 Apr. 2022
• Preschool for All has helped Tate pay his employees a living wage, said Ryan Yambra, a spokesperson for the county.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
• My workers are union, make a living wage, have full healthcare, and aren’t subject to racist treatment in their workplaces.
  — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2022
• Organizers say wages at the store fall below the living wage for Atlanta.
  — Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
• What if workers could make a living wage without needing to juggle two or three batteries to ride 60 to 80 miles a day?
  — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 25 Jan. 2022
• Paying players a living wage is something that should have happened decades ago.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 May 2022
• The debate over what constitutes a living wage in the United States differs from person to person.
  — Rupa Palla, NBC News, 16 July 2023
• The money doesn’t go far in the Anaheim/Orange Country area, where a recent analysis has shown that a living wage would be over $24 an hour.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2022
• To hear Bob Iger say that our demands for a living wage are unrealistic?
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 9 Aug. 2023
• The upside is that HHH has created tons of living wage jobs at a time when a scarcity of them is a factor in rising homelessness.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• And while the average price for a single ton of cocoa is $2,600, most farmers do not earn a living wage, leading to a reliance on child labor.
  — Larissa Zimberoff, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2022
• Supporters of the measure say that councilmembers need a living wage, and deserve a higher salary.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024