Quotes About Wages

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.

Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the poverty line are in work - the state has to spend billions of pounds a year on in-work benefits.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Like how on earth can you make 180 grand as a senator with luxe health care and sit there and be like Nero, thumbs up or down, on paying someone a living wage? I don't understand that.

Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.

Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.

It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double cheeseburger, fries, and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labor at the minimum wage - indeed, in the long sweep of history, this represents a remarkable achievement.

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.

When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to everyone in the business.

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.