hourly pay

The workers are seeking a $3 increase in their hourly pay over the next three years.

Ms. Friedman estimated her lawyers' average hourly pay at $45.

One Wisconsin man, struggling to support a wife and child, says he wants only "a nice steady job with good hourly pay."

Under the revised salary schedule, the hourly pay for her position will rise about $3 to just over $16 an hour.

Management has made what it calls a "final offer" of hourly pay increases amounting to $3.30 over six years.

But since January the average hourly pay for production workers turns out to have risen at an accelerated 4 percent annual rate.

The Legislature also increased the hourly pay to $125 from $98 for private lawyers who agree to take appeals of death penalties.

The move was the latest in weeks of demonstrations over an hourly pay rate that has not increased in 15 years.

It evaporated in practice for the aircraft mechanics, whose hourly pay ranged up to $31.

I'd be interested to know what the median hourly pay was for people with a PhD.

For most middle- and lower-income workers, hourly pay appears to be growing roughly at the rate of inflation, according to government statistics.

As other wages rose, the minimum wage fell to its lowest level relative to average hourly pay since the 1950's.

The government tracks unemployment, job creation, layoffs, hours worked, average hourly pay and various other aspects of employment.

In some cases, particularly when employees are represented by a labor union, overtime may be paid at a higher rate than 1.5 times the hourly pay.

But, he argues, if some reduction in hourly pay contributes to a bigger share of the profits for employees, there is nothing to lose.

Without following any particular formula, Congress periodically ended up setting it at roughly one-half the average hourly pay of the nation's production workers.

In August the average hourly pay fell a cent and in the preceding 11 months it rose 13 cents.

Fathers and mothers, sons and daughters are working longer hours for roughly the same hourly pay.

With tips, his earnings total about $175 a week, meaning his hourly pay is usually less than half the minimum wage.

We received only our hourly pay.

Most workers have received only a tiny raise in their hourly pay since 2001, according to inflation-adjusted figures from the Labor Department.

And hourly pay rose by a mere penny, suggesting that wage inflation, while higher than a year ago, was not accelerating.

Estimates of hourly pay in the illegal-drug business suggest that it is surprisingly low, perhaps not much more than the current minimum wage.

To achieve this, factories had to increase their hours by only 1 percent and they kept hourly pay raises to only 1.3 percent.

In the last 30 years, however, productivity has come unhinged from wages, rising much faster than hourly pay has.