Synonyms for living wage
liv·ing wage

Princeton's WordNet

1. living wagenoun

   a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably

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1. • Wage

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1. Leah Carroll:

   [ Vice's ] contract establishes salary minimums, which have been crucial in bringing those who were underpaid -- including most of our writers, editors, contractors and freelance writers -- up to industry standards, we also were able to secure annual cost-of-living wage increases and standardized job descriptions across the unit.

2. Bernie Sanders:

   What we are saying today is pretty simply, that the taxpayers of this country want to make sure that when government contracts are made, those employers who get those contracts pay workers a living wage, a great nation will not survive, in my view, when so few have so much and so many have so little.

3. David Cicilline:

   Uber is a notoriously predatory company that has long denied its drivers a living wage. Its attempt to acquire Grubhub - which has a history of exploiting local restaurants through deceptive tactics and extortionate fees - marks a new low in pandemic profiteering.

4. Jonelle Walker:

   I want to see all the workers lifted on living wage because they deserve it and the clients deserve it, i sacrifice a lot. What I'm doing is from my heart and no one can put a price on that.

5. New York:

   It wasn't until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being who deserves health care, housing, education and a living wage.