Quotes About Wages

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

If you don't work, you shouldn't have an income. If you don't work, you shouldn't get paid.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

Money is a compensation for time spent

Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time

Even four-year college graduates earned higher starting salaries in 2000 than they do today, by about seven to eight percentage points—assuming they get a job. This

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

A low wage business is always insecure.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

The point of this, as Marx explains, is to show that according to classical economics the worker becomes a commodity, the production of which is subject to the ordinary laws of supply and demand. If the supply of workers exceeds the demand for labour, wages fall and some workers starve. Wages therefore tend to the lowest possible level compatible with keeping an adequate supply of workers alive.

Wages therefore tend to the lowest possible level compatible with keeping an adequate supply of workers alive.

Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is one of the most ... anti-black laws on the statute books because it destroys entry level jobs for second paycheck earners, teens, and other unskilled workers.

An old notice was pasted to a wall beside the road: "Pay for field hands. Ninety sen a day, meals included. Women forty per cent less.

People find themselves applauding a national health service that their own government criminally underfunded and neglected these past ten years. People thank God for 'essential' workers they once considered lowly, who not so long ago they despised for wanting fifteen bucks an hour.

So, are you off to do that now?' He smiled. 'No. It's not worth it now. Farmers keep cutting the wages. The only people who can afford to do it are illegals.' 'Asylum seekers and that,' she said. 'Really?' 'Yes. Give it a couple of years, there'll be no more gypsies working on the hops at all.

Service I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia el-Adawia.